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The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27M
Granted FY2021
69
Grants FY2021
13
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$22MRecreation & Sports$15MEducation$14MInternational$7.3MPhilanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.7MOther$0
02FY2021 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+20 grants · $24M
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIER55 INC DBA LITTLE ISLAND$13,400,000
VITAL VOICES$2,500,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,750,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MALIBU$510,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500,000
THIRTEENWNET$500,000
VITAL VOICES$500,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$500,000
MILKEN INSTITUTE$425,000
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM$400,000
VITAL VOICES$300,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$250,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT$250,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$250,000
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 (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANNIECANNONS: $10k → 10%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $5k → 28%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $5k → 21%SHE SHOULD RUN: $10k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $20k → 14%HUDSON GUILD: $200k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $200k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $50k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $10k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $250k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $80k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $35k → 17%A SENSE OF HOME: $10k → 14%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $50k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 54 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2021, 25 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
80

Total granted

$36M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.1M · revenue +53%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +81%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $885k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CS
    CULTURE SHED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
  • HV
    HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is PIER55 Inc D/B/a Little Island. 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

123 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. 123 of the 167 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/123
Grantees still filing
86/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC: $14,075,000 · Arts & CultureBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INCSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,590,000 · Arts & CultureSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $1,156,500 · Arts & Culture+14 morePIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND: $13,400,000 · Recreation & SportsPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE…LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING …+1 more: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsUCLA FOUNDATION: $8,350,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $885,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $785,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERS…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 · Education+8 more: $885,000 · Education+8 moreCULTURE SHED INC: $2,000,000 · OtherCULTURE SHED INCHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $1,500,000 · OtherHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMI…BABY2BABY: $730,000 · OtherACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $650,000 · OtherCHABAD OF MALIBU: $600,000 · OtherCURTIS SCHOOL: $600,000 · OtherTHIRTEENWNET: $500,000 · OtherTSNE MISSIONWORKS PROSECUTOR IMPACT: $500,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $485,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,050,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $510,000 · Other+84 more: $4,833,680 · Other+84 moreVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,107,705 · InternationalVITAL VOICE…International Rescue Committee INC: $1,300,000 · InternationalInternation…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHT…+8 more: $408,000 · International+8 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $800,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $465,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $425,000 · HealthHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED: $250,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $215,000 · Health+5 more: $140,600 · HealthHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $550,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC: $200,250 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $101,819 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $50,000 · Human Services+10 more: $120,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$18,821,500Recreation & Sports$14,460,000Education$11,405,000Other$13,958,680International$7,315,705Health$3,295,600Human Services$1,282,069

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 budgetBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC: $14,075,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND: $13,400,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $8,350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,107,705 over 5y, 11% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,590,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $885,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $785,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $730,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $650,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $550,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $510,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $485,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $465,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $425,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK AND PINK INC: $290,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA: $282,610 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED: $250,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $215,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $200,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRILAND AID INC: $200,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $102,626 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $101,819 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPS 11 PROGRAMS INC: $100,125 over 1y, 14% of budgetArt Division: $100,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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 Diller-Von Furste…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Pinkerton FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Boston Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…California Community …Rockefeller Philanthr…American Express Foun…
The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family FoundationNY36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Pinkerton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express 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 Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc: 9% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation 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 167 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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