New York · Private foundation
The DDS 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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations The DDS Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $2.8M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $2.9M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $2.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $2.7M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $2.4M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $246 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | $4,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $2,744,885 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $1,400,000 | 5 | 1% |
| ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA | $585,000 | 5 | 4% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Barnard College | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ramaz School | $305,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $202,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun | $190,200 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Itim Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The DDS Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · The Frieman Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation · Fjc · Feldman Family Foundation Inc · The Eric and Tamar Goldstein Foundation · The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation · Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation
How this is measured
About The DDS Foundation
- How much does The DDS Foundation give?
- The DDS Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $2,765,974 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The DDS Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Philanthropy (19%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The DDS Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Yeshiva University ($4.5M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($2.7M), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($1.4M).
- Does The DDS Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The DDS Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The DDS Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ.
- Where is The DDS Foundation based?
- The DDS Foundation is based in NY.
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