· Private foundation
The Dau Family 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.
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 $10k25 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Piping Rock Scholarship Fund Inc | $25,000 |
| The Frick Collection | $10,000 |
| BayView Association of United Methodist | $6,500 |
| The Shipley School | $5,500 |
| New York City Center | $5,000 |
| Green Vale School | $5,000 |
| New York Yacht Club Foundation | $5,000 |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation | $2,500 |
| Old Westbury Gardens | $2,500 |
| Planting Fields Foundation | $2,500 |
| Break Through New York | $2,500 |
| Wings for Kids | $2,500 |
| Groton School | $2,000 |
| The Morgan Library & Museum | $2,000 |
| St Georges School | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +109%
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY6× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +9%
- NYNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- OEOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue +64%
- PIPILOBOLUS INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -67%
- CLCapitol Learning Academy Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +67%
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tonalmotion Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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. 51 of the 57 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 The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds PIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VALE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PILOBOLUS INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TONALMOTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WYNDCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Capitol Learning Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TRAPPE ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Ainslie Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Leland Deane Family Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dau Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Ocean Exploration Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.