· Private foundation
The Debs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $555k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $105,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT | $100,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $75,000 |
| TAG | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF TORT LAW | $30,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $30,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD | $20,000 |
| DOCAS INTERNATIONAL OF RHODE ISLAND | $10,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $10,000 |
| FELDEN KRAIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
97 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT9× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +176%
- PPPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TCThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +130%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -71%
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIV MEDICAL (SEETRSTEES&DRS)one grant, 2021 · $10k
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House and the most unlike its peers is Columbia University Press. 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 45 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.
88 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. 88 of the 130 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 New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FELDENKRAIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFARE AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds BRETTON WOODS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND MONETARY AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SoHarlem Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ag Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust
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 Debs Foundation 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.