· 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 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 $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 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $12,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN | $12,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Deeds 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.
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