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Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation at a glance

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Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation

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.

$650
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$650
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$772kArts & Culture$687kHealth$477kPhilanthropy$210kScience & Tech$51kRecreation & Sports$37kReligion$33kSocial Science$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$650
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND - MEREDYTH ANNE DASBURG FOUNDATION$650
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $250 → 16%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $500 → 4%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%SERAPHIC FIRE: $45k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $35k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 15%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

MN
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NY
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IN
OH
NJ
CO
MO
VA
DC
LA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 30 repeat orgs$458k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
27

Total granted

$1.8M
$458k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $346k · revenue +31%
  • SF
    SERAPHIC FIRE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $255k · revenue +27%
  • HI
    HEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $206k · revenue +363%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $135k
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERISTY NEW ORLEANS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
University of Miami
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4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
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
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
10
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Alumni Association 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

30 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. 30 of the 59 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · OtherMIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONALFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $135,485 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $122,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONLOYOLA UNIVERISTY NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERISTY NEW ORLEANSFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HERBERT WERTHEIM…UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: $45,000 · OtherST AGNES ACADEMY: $40,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP'S CHARITIES & DEVELOPMENT: $39,000 · OtherMIAMI SENIOR HIGH GIRLS BASKETBALL: $35,000 · Other+26 more: $189,250 · Other+26 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $346,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITYNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $160,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INCMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $50,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHE…ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY+5 more: $26,900 · EducationSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $255,000 · Human ServicesSERAPHIC FIR…+4 more: $2,950 · Human ServicesHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC: $205,740 · HealthHEALTH INFOR…ICU Baby Inc: $38,000 · HealthICU Baby Inc+2 more: $1,750 · HealthChildren's Theatre Company and School: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $9,850 · Arts & CultureKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,250 · PhilanthropyJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,325 · Public BenefitCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $820 · Public Benefit
Other$1,005,735Education$702,900Human Services$257,950Health$245,490Arts & Culture$64,850Philanthropy$35,250Public Benefit$3,145

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $346,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $255,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC: $205,740 over 6y, 13% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICU Baby Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $9,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $5,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT LITERACY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA HOCKEY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBascom Palmer Eye Institute Alumni Association Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SERAPHIC FIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICU Baby Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds USA HOCKEY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Miami Foundation …Key Biscayne Communit…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Key Biscayne Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Icu Baby Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Seraphic Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 59 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
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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