· Private foundation
The Deane Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $21,668 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $11,668 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NY | $10,000 |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER | $6,668 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS DUNE CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RAQUETS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MILL REEF FUND | $1,000 |
| US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION | $1,000 |
| EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $1,000 |
| ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PFPREP FOR PREP5× · 2019–2023 · $114k · revenue +28%
- BCBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING6× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +85%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MSMEDECINS SAN FRONTIERS USAone grant, 2022 · $20k
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -36%- TMTHE MALALA FUNDone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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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…
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Country School Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Malala Fund. 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.
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 74 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MILL REEF FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Deane Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
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.
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