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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.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$424kEducation$237kReligion$145kScience & Tech$107kEnvironment$29kHealth$27kCommunity Improvement$24kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 Yacht Club Foundation$5,000
Green Vale School$5,000
New York City Center$5,000
Wings for Kids$2,500
Break Through New York$2,500
Old Westbury Gardens$2,500
Planting Fields Foundation$2,500
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation$2,500
The Morgan Library & Museum$2,000
Groton School$2,000
The Wyndcroft School$1,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wings for Kids: $3k → 12%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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
SC
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$836k · 35 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
18

Total granted

$836k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+31%

Still filing today

91%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Library
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +109%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +9%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • OE
    OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue +64%
  • PI
    PILOBOLUS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -67%
  • CL
    Capitol Learning Academy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +67%
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
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
2
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
3
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
4
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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5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
The York School

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…

Education
11
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 57 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Frick Collection: $141,935 · OtherThe Frick CollectionBayView Association of United Methodist: $141,500 · OtherBayView Association of United MethodistOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $15,000 · OtherNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $15,000 · Other+18 more: $52,400 · Other+18 moreThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $82,100 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan LibraryPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $75,000 · EducationPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $36,000 · EducationGREEN VALE SCHOOLMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $30,500 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INCBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $22,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INCGROTON SCHOOL: $14,000 · Education+11 more: $46,200 · Education+11 morePILOBOLUS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePILOBOLUS INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $31,380 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY …JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER …TONALMOTION INC: $17,700 · Arts & CultureTONALMOTION IN…WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC TRAPPE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,800 · Arts & Culture+3 moreOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $67,647 · EnvironmentOCEAN EXPL…PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentPLANTING F…Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $7,000 · EnvironmentSouthern U…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $32,500 · Science & TechTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $19,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $23,750 · Community Improvement
Other$380,835Education$306,300Arts & Culture$123,880Environment$95,647Science & Tech$32,500Health$24,000Community Improvement$23,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Frick Collection: $141,935 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $82,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $75,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $67,647 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $36,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $31,380 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $23,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $22,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTONALMOTION INC: $17,700 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNorthwestern University: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $8,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WYNDCROFT SCHOOL: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Learning Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC TRAPPE: $5,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $500 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 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 Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WYNDCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Capitol Learning Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC TRAPPE ↗
  • Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗

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.

The New York Communit…Hugh and Patricia Oka…Ainslie FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Leland Deane Family F…The Pamela Howard Fam…Rk Mellon Family Foun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…
The New York Community TrustNY18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dau Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dau Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 57 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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