· Private foundation
Literary Society Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| German Lang School Conference USA | $29,000 |
| Deutsches Haus at NYU | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| German School Campus Inc | $2,000 |
| German School of Ft Lauderdale | $2,000 |
| NH German Language School | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Deutsche Sprachschule Inc UNIS (UN Facility) | $2,000 |
| Deutsche Sprachschule Inc | $2,000 |
| The Donauschule at Devon Preparatory School PA | $2,000 |
| Immanuel German Language School Philadelphia | $2,000 |
| German International School New York | $2,000 |
| Western Connecticut State University - German Study Center | $2,000 |
| German Language School of Morris County | $2,000 |
| German School of Connecticut (Sa) - Stamford | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +106% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DSDEUTSCHE SPRACHSCHULE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +5%
- DSDEUTSCHE SCHULE CHARLOTTE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +124%
- LFLIEDERKRANZ FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $500 · revenue +106%
Funded once
- GAGERMAN AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF GREATER NY CO AHMUTY DEMERS&MCMANUS MICHAEL RABUSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +32%
- GAGerman American Committee of Greater NY (Float)one grant, 2021 · $2k
- HVHousatonic Valley Waldorf Schoolone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
German-American School has been teaching German to children since l892. In the late l9th century the schools students came from German immigrant community and the schools purpose was to teach German literature, history, and culture (in…
The German School of Monmouth County's (GSMC) Mission is to provide a superior educational experience based on cognitive, creative, and social learning skills. By using these skills our students will enhance and advance their ability to…
German Language School
Teach the German language
Provide German Language Classes for Children and Adults
German language school
The German School is an inclusive learning community that welcomes students of all cultures and abilities. As an inclusion school, we support learners with diverse backgrounds and special educational needs, ensuring that every student has…
Education of children and adults in german language, Instruction and culture.
To educate the public on the german language and culture.
Teaching german language
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is German School Campus Inc and the most unlike its peers is German American Committee of Greater Ny Co Ahmuty Demers&Mcmanus Michael Rabus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 33 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 DEUTSCHE SPRACHSCHULE INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN PACIFIC SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds DEUTSCHE SCHULE CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF GREATER NY CO AHMUTY DEMERS&MCMANUS MICHAEL RABUS ↗
- Who funds GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GERMAN SCHOOL CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds DEUTSCHE SCHULE ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIEDERKRANZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Literary Society 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.
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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