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The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$13MScience & Tech$2.6MHealth$435kRecreation & Sports$300kEnvironment$240kSocial Science$25k
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.6M
$75,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$100,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON$100,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$100,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON$100,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$100,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $100k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $100k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $128k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $100k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $100k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $123k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $100k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $150k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $100k → 15%YALE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $100k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100k → 8%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER: $100k → 12%INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: $100k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $100k → 13%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $100k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $110k → 19%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $120k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $120k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $140k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $130k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $130k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%XIAOWEI ZHUANG - HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $129k → 8%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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 43 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
67

Total granted

$8.3M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

47%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $770k · revenue +52%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +0%
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $498k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $128k · revenue +24%
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +39%
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
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
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
University of Miami

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

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Twin Cities Regional Science Fairs. 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

66 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. 66 of the 134 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)
66/66
Grantees still filing
60/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $425,187 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $330,000 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $320,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $310,261 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BASEL: $270,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $260,000 · Other+65 more: $5,209,606 · Other+65 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $835,971 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Chicago: $770,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $700,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $679,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCornell University: $497,744 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · Education+48 more: $3,456,689 · Education+48 moreAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $360,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $20,000 · Science & Tech+1 more: $10,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $300,000 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $100,000 · Health
Other$7,750,054Education$7,539,404Science & Tech$390,000Recreation & Sports$300,000Community Improvement$200,000Health$100,000

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $835,971 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $770,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $679,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $497,744 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $425,187 over 4y, 46% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $360,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $128,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $93,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $93,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $85,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNew York University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $72,967 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗

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.

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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 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 4% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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