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The Dlr Group 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.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Education$268kArts & Culture$209kRecreation & Sports$30kEnvironment$20kPublic Benefit$10kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$50,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$50,000
21ST CENTURY SCHOOL FUND$35,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE$25,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$25,000
CAMPOUT FOR KIDS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$10,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$10,000
ARCHITECTURE 2030$10,000
CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
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NJ
CO
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MO
NM
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$370k · 8 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$370k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+3%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +16%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +3%
  • CO
    CAMP OUT FOR KIDS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • NB
    NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)graduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
3
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
4
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

5
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
6
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
7
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
8
University Foundation
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
American University

To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noma Foundation. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $10,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationThe Musical Arts Association — $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $26,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL H…THE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC — $24,999 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL AR…PLAYHOUSE SQUARE — $50,000 · OtherPLAYHOUSE SQUAREARCHITECTURE 2030 — $20,000 · OtherARCHITECTURE 2030Carnegie Mellon University — $10,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon Univer…CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS F…University of Michigan — $10,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganCORNELL ARTS COMPLEX — $7,000 · OtherCORNELL ARTS COMPLEXIndividual grant recipient — $5,500 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · Other21st Century School Fund — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCAMP OUT FOR KIDS — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $6,000 · Philanthropy30-DAYS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Social Science
Education$223,000Arts & Culture$150,999Other$113,500Community Improvement$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Philanthropy$8,500Human Services$7,500Social Science$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget21st Century School Fund — $35,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCAMP OUT FOR KIDS — $30,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $26,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC — $24,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NOMA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetIOWA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dlr Group 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dlr Group Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dlr Group 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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