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The Durst Family Foundation at a glance

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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTS: $50k → 20%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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%
+50%

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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • 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

  • YEAR UP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27%
  • EY
    ELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +120%
  • TF
    TERRA FIRMA HEALTHCARE AND JUSTICE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 63 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $300,000 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INCTERRA FIRMA HEALTHCARE AND JUSTICE INC: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $300,000 · OtherNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATIONTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 · OtherROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $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…CAMBA INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $155,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $125,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIASPORA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATLAS DIY CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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 budgetLocal Development Corp of East New York: $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetLITERACY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDRAMA CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVIBE THEATER EXPERIENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCAMBA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT EATS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGood Work Austin: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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