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Deacom Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182020.

Health$38kArts & Culture$15kRecreation & Sports$15kEmployment$11kAnimals$10kPublic Benefit$9kEducation$8kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lehigh Art Alliance$5,000
Nashoba Valley Chorale$5,000
JDRF International$5,000
Family Services of Montgomery$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Good Samaritan Shelter: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your 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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 6 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$52k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-38%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • HH
    HOLTONS HEROES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue -38%
  • JW
    J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship
    2× · 2018–2019 · $12k
  • TL
    THE LEHIGH ART ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $10k

Funded once

  • PS
    PA State Animal Response Team
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • HI
    Handicrafters Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • WE
    WEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $7k

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

04Your 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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Services and the most unlike its peers is Handicrafters 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship — $11,750 · OtherJ Wood Platt Caddie ScholarshipPA State Animal Response Team — $10,000 · OtherPA State Animal Response TeamTHE LEHIGH ART ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE LEHIGH ART ALLIANCE INCWEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION — $6,800 · OtherWEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATIONNASHOBA VALLEY CHORALE INC THE — $5,000 · OtherNASHOBA VALLEY CHORALE INC THECommunities in Schools of Lehigh — $4,000 · OtherCommunities in Schools of LehighNational MS Society — $2,600 · OtherLIBERTY MINISTRIES — $2,500 · OtherFriends of the South Philadelphia — $2,500 · OtherFamily Services of Montgomery — $2,500 · Other+9 more — $10,600 · Other+9 moreHOLTONS HEROES — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOLTONS HEROES+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $6,000 · HealthAMERICAN CA…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUG…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…Handicrafters Inc — $10,000 · EmploymentHandicraft…MDRC — $1,000 · EmploymentMDRCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,827 · InternationalBoyertown Area Midget Baseball League Inc — $100 · Youth Development
Other$68,250Human Services$20,500Health$12,000Employment$11,000Education$3,500International$1,827Youth Development$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOLTONS HEROES — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHandicrafters Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHOBA VALLEY CHORALE INC THE — $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY MINISTRIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,827 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $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.

  • Who funds HOLTONS HEROES
  • Who funds Handicrafters Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds NASHOBA VALLEY CHORALE INC THE
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds LIBERTY MINISTRIES
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds MDRC
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES
  • Who funds Boyertown Area Midget Baseball League 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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Deacom Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Nashoba Valley Chorale Inc the11% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Deacom Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Deacom Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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