Maryland · Private foundation
The Deck 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.
- $973k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 44
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Deck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 47 | $973k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.0M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $978k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $1.1M | 70% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $395k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jills House Inc | $480,000 | 6 | n/a |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $320,000 | 6 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Just Tryan It Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Cambridge Camping Association Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Comfort Cases Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Manna Food Center Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Deck Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Sidgmore Family Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Harman Cain Family Foundation · Whispering Bells Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Foley Hoag Foundation · Luther I Replogle Foundation
How this is measured
About The Deck Foundation
- How much does The Deck Foundation give?
- The Deck Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $972,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Deck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (21%), Arts & Culture (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Deck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($650k), Jills House Inc ($480k), National Yiddish Book Center Inc ($320k).
- Does The Deck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Deck 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 Deck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is The Deck Foundation based?
- The Deck Foundation is based in MD.
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