· Private foundation
The Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTLAND AME ZION CHURCH INC | $64,806 |
| NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILSON CENTER | $20,800 |
| CIVIC NATION | $11,000 |
| IAMMM-INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MULTICULTURAL AND MINORITY MEDICINE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 34% of grant dollars ($325k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 66% that went abroad ($621k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 66% of all-years giving ($621k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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
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.
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- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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