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International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc

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$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$273kHuman Services$100kHealth$36kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$8k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $131,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $138,701 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,340 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
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States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART$30,000
SOUTHHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME$26,361
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC$25,000
OPERA LAFAYETTE$25,000
NATIONAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION FOUNDATION$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%sailors' soldiers' marines' coast guard & airmen's club: $75k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLE: $25k → 14%FLORENCE ACADEMY OF THE ART (BRANCH OF THE INTL ACADEMY OF FINE ART): $15k → 14%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%SOLDIERS' SAILORS' MARINES' COAST GUARD & AIRMENS' CLUB: $25k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLE: $20k → 14%FLORENCE ACADEMY OF THE ART US (BRANCH OF THE INTL ACADEMY OF FINE ART): $10k → 14%THE VERSAILLE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%THE VERSAILLE FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 17%THE FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $40k → 17%FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $17k → 17%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$297k · 5 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$297k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IA
    International Academy of Fine Art
    4× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +40%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES
    2× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +341%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME
    2× · 2024–2025 · $36k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FI
    FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • FH
    FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +22%
  • NU
    Norwich University
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +20%
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
American Friends of the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art Inc
Arts & Culture
2
The American Society for the Florence Academy of Art Inc
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3
The French-American Foundation

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.

International
4
American Society of the French Legion of Honor Inc
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5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
The American College of the Mediterranean

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…

Education
7
Lycee Francais De New York

"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…

Education
8
The Alliance Francaisefrench House of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
10
George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
11
The French Will Never Forget Inc

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.

International
12
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is French Heritage Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLESFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCA…YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INCOpera Lafayette: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOpera LafayetteInternational Academy of Fine Art: $90,000 · InternationalInternational Academy of Fi…FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $16,750 · InternationalFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INCSoldiers'Sailors'MarinesX and Airmen's Club: $100,000 · Public BenefitSoldiers'Sailors'MarinesX…THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $36,361 · HealthTHE SOUTH…The Versailles Foundation Inc: $25,200 · OtherFLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART: $6,500 · OtherNATIONAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNorwich University: $8,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$135,000International$106,750Public Benefit$100,000Health$36,361Other$31,700Philanthropy$25,000Education$8,000

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 budgetSoldiers'Sailors'MarinesX and Airmen's Club: $100,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetInternational Academy of Fine Art: $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $45,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $36,361 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Versailles Foundation Inc: $25,200 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Lafayette: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $16,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorwich University: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to International Debutante Ball Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 12 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 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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