· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $635k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $100,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $100,000 |
| JILLS HOUSE | $75,000 |
| YIDDISH BOOK CENTER | $50,000 |
| RED WIGGLER FARM | $40,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $25,000 |
| COMFORT CASES | $25,000 |
| ANACOSTIA WATERSHED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WAMU | $25,000 |
| VOICES FOR A SECOND CHANCE | $25,000 |
| JUST TRYAN IT INC | $25,000 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER | $25,000 |
| VISITING NURSE SERVICES OF NY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METRO DC | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
48 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +39%- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +93%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- HJHaydens Journey of Inspiration Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -98% · 28% of their budget
- PPPROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
React dc was founded in september 2021 by professional military spouses and veterans with backgrounds in law, intelligence operations, military service, education, and non-profit work. we came together to assist our afghan allies in the…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
To provide school children and their families access to additional food during the school day and over the weekends when school meals are not available.
We offer hope and help to refugee, asylumseeking, and immigrant families in the Washington D.C. metro area. We provide educational programs that help families learn English. We provide practical assistance and connections to community…
Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
When children read, they can succeed. yet too many young students across the greater dc area aren't getting the support they need to become engaged and excited readers. everybody wins dc is working to change that, one book at a time. since…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dc Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reset. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 67 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds JUST TRYAN IT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds RESET ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds LOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY1 CAN WORK ↗
- Who funds Little Friends for Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 826DC INC ↗
- Who funds AN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERPLAY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE 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: 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
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 Deck 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Comfort Cases 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.