· Private foundation
The Double-R Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k149 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUNY GRAD CENTER | $41,000 |
| FILM FORUM | $25,250 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT | $21,950 |
| FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE AND SOCIETY | $20,010 |
| WILD BIRD FUND | $19,530 |
| WFUV FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $11,549 |
| ETHEL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $10,150 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $8,500 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $7,984 |
| MUNA SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY | $3,555 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
184 repeat relationships: 135 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +9%
- WBWILD BIRD FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +118%
- FUFordham University4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NRNY RESTORATION PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CGCUNY GRAD CENTER - CENTER FOR GLOBAL ETHICS AND POLITICSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- NYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +287%
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.
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.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
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…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
How this is measured
185 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. 185 of the 261 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DELLARTE OPERA ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TARGET MARGIN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Thompson Family Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Robin Hood Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Double-R Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Double-R Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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