· Public charity
International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc
Bi-annual ball to raise funds to support indentified 501 (c) (3) organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $131,361 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,701 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,340 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART | $30,000 |
| SOUTHHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME | $26,361 |
| OPERA LAFAYETTE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IAInternational Academy of Fine Art4× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +40%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES2× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +341%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME2× · 2024–2025 · $36k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FIFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISEone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +5%
- FHFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +22%
- NUNorwich Universityone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Founded in 1976, and building on more than two centuries of shared ideals between France and the United States, the French-American Foundation works to enrich a transatlantic relationship that is essential in todays world.
The mission of the american college of the mediterranean is to provide excellence in international education, inspire intercultural awareness, and prepare students for success in a global community through the study of european and…
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
The alliance francaise de chicago ("af-chicago") is chicago's french cultural and learning center, dedicated to the study of french language, cultural exchange, and friendship between americans and french-speaking people.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Nurture Franco American Friendship and Alliance. Express gratitude to the USA for its decisive help to France twice in the past century. Honor American Veterans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is French Heritage Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Academy of Fine Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Soldiers'Sailors'MarinesX and Airmen's Club ↗
- Who funds International Academy of Fine Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds The Versailles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Lafayette ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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