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The Destina Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Destina 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.

$695k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MHealth$1.3MInternational$1.0MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEnvironment$400kHuman Services$300kPublic Benefit$300kEducation$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $650k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$200,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$200,000
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA$100,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$100,000
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC$50,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$25,000
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 14 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$5.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +81%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -7%
  • SI
    SWISS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +25%
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
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
10
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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11
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorothea Tanning Foundation Inc. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS …SWISS INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSWISS INSTITUTEPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $300,000 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INCFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY…+2 more: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,314,700 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORY ARTS: $290,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORY ARTSBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $300,000 · OtherBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST+3 more: $110,000 · Other+3 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalInternational Re…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $350,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $300,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,655,000Health$1,314,700Other$1,800,000International$1,000,000Environment$350,000Human Services$300,000Civil Rights$300,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,314,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSWISS INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOROTHEA TANNING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 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.

The Cowles Charitable…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cowles Charitable TrustNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Destina Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Destina Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Destina Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Destina Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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