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The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$813k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$511kYouth Development$325kHousing & Shelter$295kCrime & Legal$220kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRICK COLLECTION$100,000
PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES$50,000
SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICE$31,800
LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT$20,000
HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN$20,000
MINT THEATER COMPANY$20,000
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$20,000
52ND STREET PROJECT$15,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$15,000
THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$15,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
DANCING CLASSROOMS$15,000
HOMEWARD NYC$15,000
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 (FY20–25, $689k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND: $20k → 20%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND: $20k → 20%THE RIVER FUND: $20k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND: $20k → 20%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $20k → 20%THE RIVER FUND: $20k → 13%THE RIVER FUND: $20k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 13%THE FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 20%THE FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 20%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 17%THE FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 20%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $5k → 20%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $18k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $18k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $18k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $10k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $10k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $10k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $15k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $15k → 17%RIVERSTONE SENIOR LIFE SERVICES: $15k → 17%RIVERSTONE SENIOR LIFE SERVICES: $15k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $15k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $15k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $15k → 17%RIVERSTONE SENIOR LIFE SERVICES: $10k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $15k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $50k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $20k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $15k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $20k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $15k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $15k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $15k → 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 84 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
26

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SC
    SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $99k · revenue +27%
  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +3%
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -23%
  • TN
    THE NEW SCHOOLCOLLEGE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TN
    The New School
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +13%
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
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
6
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
7
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement

The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
10
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. 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

103 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. 103 of the 128 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
71/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Frick Collection: $100,000 · OtherTHE NEW SCHOOLCOLLEGE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 · OtherSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $98,600 · Other+54 more: $1,784,300 · Other+54 moreTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER R…+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Oper…NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATI…The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan …MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMIND BUILDERS CRE…ARTSCONNECTION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureJAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $295,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEI…THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND…JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNI…SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSERVICE PROGRA…HUDSON GUILDINC: $54,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDIN…PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN S…SEARCH AND CARE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CAR…READING TEAM INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM I…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR …THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CEN…FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFRESH YOUTH IN…RIVERSTONE SENIOR LIFE SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesRIVERSTONE SEN…QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $40,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS COMMUNI…HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $30,000 · Human Services+5 more: $60,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $270,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…The New School: $70,000 · EducationThe New Scho…CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC: $45,000 · EducationCHANCES FOR …HARLEM ACADEMY: $45,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADE…MARCY LAB INC: $45,000 · EducationMARCY LAB IN…STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $35,000 · EducationSTUDENTSPONS…READ ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $26,000 · EducationLITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE INC: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $30,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $70,000 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $60,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $45,000 · HealthAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC: $30,000 · HealthBETANCES HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · HealthMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $15,000 · HealthLIVEONNY INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,082,900Philanthropy$1,030,000Arts & Culture$905,000Human Services$734,000Education$621,000Health$305,000Crime & Legal$125,000

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 budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $270,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $98,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREADING TEAM INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% 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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ76.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Rose M Badgeley Charitable Trust 10-214890 · The New York Community Trust · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Altman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Marty and Dorothy Silverman 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 Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc 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 128 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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