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The David a Dechman 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$516k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MHealth$588kCivil Rights$453kEducation$325kPhilanthropy$164kCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$140kSocial Science$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,061,763 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,161,763 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $516k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Museum of Modern Art$515,513
MOMA$125,000
Movement Advancement Project$50,000
Voter Participation Center$50,000
Amalgamated Foundation$50,000
MOMA$50,000
National Fdn for Advancement in the Arts$30,000
JewBelong$25,000
New York Live Arts$25,000
Friends of the High Line$25,000
Brooklyn Museum$25,000
MOMA$15,000
Aperture Foundation$10,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$10,000
National Gallery of Art$10,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 15 repeat orgs$964k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$4.4M
$764k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

67%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthEducationInternationalReligionOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $585k · revenue +30%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +16%
  • NY
    NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FF
    Freedom for All Americans
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • AF
    All Forney Center
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CL
    CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +196%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
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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3
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChildhood Cancer SupportCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community FederationsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsProfessional Dance CompaniesCommunity FoundationsGovernment Accountability &…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,732

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.

03the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
14/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOMA — $1,472,691 · OtherMOMAMuseum of Modern Art — $1,371,584 · OtherMuseum of Modern ArtFreedom for All Americans — $250,000 · OtherFreedom for All AmericansMovement Advantage Project — $150,000 · OtherNational YoungArts Foundation — $135,000 · Other+8 more — $324,000 · Other+8 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $585,000 · HealthDana-Farber …+2 more — $8,000 · HealthGLSEN INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT — $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $2,500 · Civil RightsNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $115,000 · Arts & CultureAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $35,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $16,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $22,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $175,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $47,500 · EducationAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $50,000 · InternationalJEWBELONG INC — $25,000 · Religion
Other$3,703,275Health$593,000Civil Rights$402,500Arts & Culture$393,750Education$222,500Philanthropy$160,000International$50,000Religion$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $585,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $16,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEYELLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAILEY HOUSE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Horace W Goldsmit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Horace W Goldsmith FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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