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The Derbes Foundation Inc

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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$180kEducation$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$11kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC$15,500
THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION$10,000
FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC$6,570
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART$6,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$4,000
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$2,000
LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 8%MILLBROOK SCHOOL: $200 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER: $1k → 10%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $3k → 11%CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 9%ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 12%HOPE CREEK ACADEMY: $8k → 11%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $7k → 23%LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER: $1k → 10%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $7k → 11%CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 9%ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 12%HOPE CREEK ACADEMY: $8k → 11%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $7k → 23%LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER: $500 → 10%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $4k → 11%CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 9%ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 12%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $6k → 23%LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER: $200 → 10%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 9%ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 12%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $6k → 23%LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER: $150 → 10%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $3k → 11%CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 9%ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 12%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $2k → 23%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $2k → 23%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $2k → 11%CULTURAL COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH CITY: $150 → 11%CULTURAL COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH CITY: $150 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
NC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 13 repeat orgs$700 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$283k
$700

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+51%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +94%
  • FQ
    FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +362%
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +39%
  • MS
    MILLBROOK SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200 · revenue +51%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Centre College

Centre college is a small, independent, and selective educational community dedicated to study in the liberal arts as a means to develop the intellectual, personal, and moral potential of its students. centre nurtures in its students the…

Education
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State University of Iowa Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Acupuncturists Without Borders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC: $81,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WWOZ INCFRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $29,045 · Arts & CultureFRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INCCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $26,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ARTMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $18,002 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC+2 more: $3,350 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $61,304 · OtherTHE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS CO…THE BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION IN…+1 more: $400 · OtherHOPE CREEK ACADEMY INC: $16,000 · EducationHOPE CREEK …STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVE…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,000 · EducationMassachuset…+2 more: $700 · EducationACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $14,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$157,397Other$69,704Education$29,700Public Safety & Disaster$15,000Philanthropy$14,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC: $81,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC: $29,045 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $26,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $18,002 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CREEK ACADEMY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC: $3,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Derbes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Derbes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home