Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Dweck Philanthropies Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Dweck Philanthropies Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $622k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $657k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $855k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $555k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $1.2M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitar Arts Center | $1,082,657 | 8 | 6% |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $725,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $620,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Higher Achievement Program Inc | $516,960 | 8 | 2% |
| Latin American Youth Center | $513,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc | $385,000 | 8 | 1% |
| DC Scores | $260,000 | 6 | 2% |
| N Street Village Inc | $226,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Martha's Table Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum | $120,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dweck Philanthropies Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · The Evergreen Foundation Inc · Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust · The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation
How this is measured
About Dweck Philanthropies Inc
- How much does Dweck Philanthropies Inc give?
- Dweck Philanthropies Inc reported 11 grants totaling $1,122,055 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dweck Philanthropies Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Arts & Culture (15%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Dweck Philanthropies Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sitar Arts Center ($1.1M), Sixth & I Synagogue Inc ($725k), Bread for the City Inc ($621k).
- Does Dweck Philanthropies Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dweck Philanthropies Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dweck Philanthropies Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation.
- Where is Dweck Philanthropies Inc based?
- Dweck Philanthropies Inc is based in DC.
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