· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $65,000 |
| AMERICARES | $50,000 |
| MASTER DRAWINGS ASSOCIATION | $33,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH | $30,000 |
| SCAN HARBOR NEW YORK | $28,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NY | $20,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $15,000 |
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMON PANTRY OF NEW YORK | $12,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN | $12,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $12,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 10 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; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library9× · 2017–2025 · $419k · revenue +109%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +21%
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -1%
- AFAMER FRIENDS OF HE MAURITSHUISone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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 national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MASTER DRAWINGS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCAN-HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Deeds Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deeds Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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