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The Durst Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$755kFood & Nutrition$753kEmployment$705kCivil Rights$500kYouth Development$465kHousing & Shelter$400kHealth$330kArts & Culture$318kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC$100,000
NEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION$100,000
RECESS ACTIVITIES INC$75,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$50,000
PROJECT EATS$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION: $50k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTS: $50k → 20%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $100k → 20%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $100k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $25k → 20%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $15k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $100k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $100k → 17%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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 17 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
43

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+48%

Still filing today

94%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

  • HB
    HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
    4× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +61%
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $363k · revenue +113%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $325k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -10%
  • EY
    ELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +120%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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
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
2
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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3
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
4
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
5
Youth Justice Network Inc

Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)

Human Services
6
Avenues for Justice Inc

Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…

Crime & Legal
7
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.

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8
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

Please see schedule o for full mission statement

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9
Community Development Project Inc

Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Good Work Austin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts & Cultural Organizatio…Youth Education & Developme…Legal Services & Justice Ac…Family Philanthropic Founda…Disability Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr22%31%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr9%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr22%24%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr9%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
11%
3,926/36,023

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 63 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $300,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INCNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $300,000 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherTERRA FIRMA HEALTHCARE AND JUSTICE INC — $100,000 · OtherNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION — $300,000 · OtherNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATIONROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $100,000 · OtherNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $125,000 · Other+26 more — $972,500 · Other+26 moreCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC — $300,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN OF …Make the Road New York — $200,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Roa…IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · Crime & LegalGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $400,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KI…MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECA ORGA…GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGROUNDSWELL …COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $362,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK …THE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LADIES…THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ARAB-A…BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE…THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $155,000 · HealthTHE FORTUN…ELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC — $100,000 · HealthELMCOR YOU…THE JED FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthTHE JED FO…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthYEAR UP INC — $100,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $75,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA — $65,000 · EducationBLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC — $50,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $35,000 · EducationLITERACY INC — $25,000 · Education20 20 Vision For Schools Inc — $12,500 · EducationCITY HARVEST INC — $325,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,397,500Crime & Legal$575,000Human Services$565,000Community Improvement$497,500Health$495,000Education$362,500Food & Nutrition$325,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $400,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $362,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $325,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC — $300,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION — $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMake the Road New York — $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $155,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $125,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA — $65,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION — $65,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDIASPORA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON JUSTICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetATLAS DIY CORPORATION — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLocal Development Corp of East New York — $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA — $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRAMA CLUB INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT EATS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIBE THEATER EXPERIENCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCAMBA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGood Work Austin — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Brooklyn Community Fo…Pinkerton FoundationRobin Hood FoundationNew York Women's Foun…The Ford FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Mother Cabrini Health…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Altman FoundationUnited Way of New Yor…New York Foundation
Brooklyn Community FoundationNY43.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · United Way of New York City · New York 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 Durst Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report 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

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 Durst Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Durst 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
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