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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.

$170k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Education$300kInternational$46kRecreation & Sports$43kEnvironment$39kReligion$34kCivil Rights$23kArts & Culture$21kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k10 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$524k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL$5,000
ST ANDREWS DUNE CHURCH$3,000
THE AMERICAN RAQUETS FOUNDATION$2,000
ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA$1,000
MILL REEF FUND$1,000
US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION$1,000
SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC$1,000
EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER NY: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NY: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$437k · 25 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

$437k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PF
    PREP FOR PREP
    5× · 2019–2023 · $114k · revenue +28%
  • BC
    BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING
    6× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +85%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEDECINS SAN FRONTIERS USA
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -36%
  • TM
    THE MALALA FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -6%
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.

04Its 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
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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2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Dickinson College

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

Education
5
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Ie New York College

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Education
8
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
9
Barnard College

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…

Education
10
Long Island University

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.

—
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Bennington College Corporation

The men and women who brought bennington college into being sought to create a college that would emphasize "the individual student and her developing interests," learning "by activity and living", a community life designed to "break down…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Country School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $24,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUS COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION: $23,000 · OtherUS COURT TENNIS PRESERVATIONMEDECINS SAN FRONTIERS USA: $20,000 · OtherMEDECINS SAN FRONTIERS USATHE AMERICAN RAQUETS FOUNDATION: $18,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN RAQUETS FOUNDATIONST ANDREWS DUNE CHURCH: $18,500 · OtherST ANDREWS DUNE CHURCHCORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INC: $15,000 · OtherCORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INCCHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $9,500 · Other+8 more: $23,000 · Other+8 morePREP FOR PREP: $113,668 · EducationPREP FOR PREPBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING: $34,168 · EducationBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNINGDUKE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $16,500 · EducationTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INCVERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $8,500 · Education+4 more: $13,250 · Education+4 moreSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,418 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalChewonki Foundation Inc: $21,000 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentWATERAID AMERICA INC: $17,500 · InternationalYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $13,000 · Human ServicesBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$276,500Education$208,586Crime & Legal$33,418Environment$22,500International$17,500Human Services$13,000Arts & Culture$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPREP FOR PREP: $113,668 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING: $34,168 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,418 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMILL REEF FUND: $8,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $1,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Deane Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deane Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Georgian Court University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Deane Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Deane Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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