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The Distinguished Social Ventures Foundation at a glance

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The Distinguished Social Ventures Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$59k
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Crime & Legal$72kHousing & Shelter$24kEmployment$2kHuman Services$500Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSBORNE ASSOCIATION$59,000
LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER$3,500
THE DOE FUND$2,500
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER: $500 → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 5 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$94k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+151%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Housing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • TO
    THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $69k · revenue +72%
  • THE DOE FUND INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +28%
  • WI
    Westhab Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +360%

Funded once

  • YS
    YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +101%
  • BE
    BELAY ENTERPRISES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +151%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
2
Human Development Services Westchester Inc

Human development services of westchester, inc. ("hdsw")is a social service organization providing quality behavorial health, rehabilitative, health, residential and community stabilization services in westchester county. hdsw is dedicated…

Health
3
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
4
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
5
Apropos Housing Opportunities and Mgmt Enterprises Inc

A-home is a not-for-profit organization that strengthens northern westchester neighborhoods by providing residents a safe and affordable place to live.

Housing & Shelter
6
Westchester Residential Opportunities Inc

Westchester residential opportunities (wro) is a hud-certified housing counseling agency with specialized programs to combat housing discrimination, market affordable housing opportunities, and to assist first time homebuyers, the elderly…

Housing & Shelter
7
Leap Inc

Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. we seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement…

Housing & Shelter
8
Workforce Alliance Inc

Provide job training through various programs.

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9
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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10
The Young Women's Christian Association of Yonkers

Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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11
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
12
Nontraditional Employment for Women

See schedule onontraditional employment for women (new) prepares, trains, and places women in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Osborne Association 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $69,000 · OtherTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC+1 more: $500 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $13,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DOE FUND INCWesthab Inc: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterWesthab IncLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INCHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $3,000 · EducationGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $500 · Human ServicesBELAY ENTERPRISES INC: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$69,500Housing & Shelter$23,500Education$3,000Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$500Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $69,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWesthab Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELAY ENTERPRISES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Impact100 Westchester…Pcsb Community Founda…United Way of Westche…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Impact100 Westchester IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impact100 Westchester Inc · Pcsb Community Foundation · United Way of Westchester and Putnam · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Distinguished Social Ventures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Distinguished Social Ventures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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 9 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.

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