· Private foundation
The Daphne Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Daphne Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to North Star Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Daphne Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $446k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k9 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAAAV - Organizing Asian Communities | $80,000 |
| JUSTICE COMMITTEE | $46,000 |
| DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING | $40,000 |
| North Star Fund | $40,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER | $40,000 |
| BLACK WOMEN'S BLUEPRINT | $40,000 |
| FAITH IN NEW YORK | $40,000 |
| BRANDWORKERS INC | $40,000 |
| Project Hospitality | $40,000 |
| VOCAL-NY | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Daphne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJustice Committee Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +1%
- CACommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +116%
- ACAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR POLICE REEFORMone grant, 2020 · $43k
- PRPOLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +23%
- LALAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -2%
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.
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.
Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The Organization works to promote the social welfare of low income people living in New York City, New York State and the nation through public education, leadership development and advocacy.
The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…
To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.
To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…
Community Governance & Development Council (CGDC) is a non-profit community organization aimed at empowering Southwest Yonkers through technology, participatory urban planning, and community leadership development.
Legal, immigration and community organizing
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Justice Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC ↗
- Who funds Brandworkers International Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND IMMIGRANT CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New York Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · North Star Fund Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Open Society Institute · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The New York Community Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Daphne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daphne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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