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The David a Dechman Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,061,763, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,161,763 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Amalgamated Foundation$50,000
Movement Advancement Project$50,000
Voter Participation Center$50,000
MOMA$50,000
National Fdn for Advancement in the Arts$30,000
JewBelong$25,000
Brooklyn Museum$25,000
New York Live Arts$25,000
Friends of the High Line$25,000
MOMA$15,000
Whitney Museum$10,000
Morgan Library and Museum$10,000
National Gallery of Art$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 15 repeat orgs$964k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

$4.7M
$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
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $585k · revenue +47%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +16%
  • NY
    NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FF
    Freedom for All Americans
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • HB
    Harvard Business School
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CL
    CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +196%
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.

03Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOMA: $1,677,691 · 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 · HealthNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $140,000 · 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 & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $22,500 · Arts & CultureGLSEN INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsMEDIA 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$3,908,275Health$593,000Arts & Culture$418,750Civil Rights$402,500Education$222,500Philanthropy$160,000International$50,000Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetGLSEN INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetNational Gallery of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,500 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.

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 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

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.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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