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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 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, FY2022 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$50,000
21ST CENTURY SCHOOL FUND$35,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE$25,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$25,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
ARCHITECTURE 2030$10,000
CAMPOUT FOR KIDS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$10,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$10,000
CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$5,000
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 (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. Its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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%
+19%

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
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

  • 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 MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +29%
  • 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 +49%
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
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…

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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
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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; 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 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. 19 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $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 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 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 budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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
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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Dlr Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dlr Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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