New York · Private foundation
The Deeds 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.
- $459k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Deeds Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $453k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $420k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $344k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $289k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $279k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $268k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $419,350 | 9 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $193,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Federation for Aging Research Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Master Drawings Association Inc | $126,500 | 9 | 6% |
| City Harvest Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cornelia Connely Center for Education | $107,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Miss Porter's School Inc | $88,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Frick Collection | $67,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($816k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Deeds Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Deeds Foundation
- How much does The Deeds Foundation give?
- The Deeds Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $459,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Deeds Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Deeds Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Pierpont Morgan Library ($419k), New York City Ballet Inc ($225k), Americares Foundation Inc ($193k).
- Does The Deeds Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Deeds 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 Deeds Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Deeds Foundation based?
- The Deeds Foundation is based in NY.
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