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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MReligion$1.2MAnimals$1.0MFood & Nutrition$835kYouth Development$792kHuman Services$664kHealth$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $590k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$500,000
SITAR ARTS CENTER$200,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT$150,000
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE$75,000
SIXTH AND I$65,000
HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE & MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER$50,000
EDLAVITCH DCJCC$25,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER$3,555
Individual grant recipient$2,500
FRIENDS OF ALL CRITTERS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $180 → 22%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $1k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $1k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $25k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $25k → 14%SULAM: $1k → 8%SULAM: $1k → 8%SULAM: $1k → 8%SULAM: $1k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $1k → 8%SULAM: $500 → 8%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $40k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $25k → 14%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 38 repeat orgs$477k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
46

Total granted

$7.4M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+46%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SITAR ARTS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +73%
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $621k · revenue +70%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $514k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +10%
  • J
    JPDS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
6
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
9
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
10
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
11
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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12
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N Street Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boca Rio Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE & MEDICAL CENTER: $991,904 · OtherHUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE & MEDICAL CENTERHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $516,960 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC6TH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE: $410,000 · Other6TH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUEEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $385,000 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INCDC SCORES: $260,000 · OtherDC SCORESN STREET VILLAGE INC: $226,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $200,000 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTE: $155,000 · OtherNAOMI BERNIE DIABETES CENTER: $150,000 · OtherNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTER: $150,000 · Other+48 more: $858,962 · Other+48 moreSITAR ARTS CENTER: $1,082,657 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTE…Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $120,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albe…+4 more: $40,500 · Arts & CultureBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $620,600 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR T…MARTHA'S TABLE INC: $210,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TA…+2 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $105,000 · EducationMILTON GOT…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $40,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $725,000 · ReligionSIXTH & I…LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $513,500 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE: $37,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $115,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $17,000 · Human ServicesSilver Spring Village Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,680 · Human Services
Other$4,303,826Arts & Culture$1,243,157Food & Nutrition$834,100Education$783,000Religion$725,000Youth Development$551,500Human Services$148,680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $1,082,657 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $725,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $620,600 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $516,960 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $513,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $385,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetDC SCORES: $260,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $226,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $210,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $120,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $115,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $61,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE: $37,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC: $34,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSilver Spring Village Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNational Children Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESS CHALLENGE IN DC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGIOMA ALLIANCE DBA ALLIANCE TO CURE CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE TRUCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUDLOW-TAYLOR PTO: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetV G C FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE'S PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds DC SCORES ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…The Morningstar Phila…The Ryna and Melvin C…The Annette M Lerner …The Evergreen Foundat…Joseph E Robert Jr Ch…The MB Lewis Charitab…Howard and Geraldine …The Gary & Carol Berm…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…Galena-Yorktown Found…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dweck Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dweck Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home