Does The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Panwy Foundation Inc, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc.

The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation

The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation

Q: How much does The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation give?

The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $653,059 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Q: What does The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Philanthropy (28%), Health (15%).

Q: Who are The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bruce Museum Inc ($1.4M), Temple Beth El ($337k), Els for Autism Foundation ($325k).

Q: Does The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation based?

The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation is based in CT.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$653k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$203k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 36 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $653k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$670kEducation$473kReligion$348kPublic Safety & Disaster$132kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$12kOther$0

02FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k31 grants · $64k
$10k–50k6 grants · $127k
$50k–250k4 grants · $462k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Frances E Deutsch Early Childhood C	$202,997
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$100,000
BRUCE MUSEUM	$83,850
GREENWICH HOSPITAL FDN	$75,000
ELS FOR AUTISM	$30,150
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc	$25,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL ANNUAL FUND	$25,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness	$20,000
UNITED WAY Of Greenwich	$16,200
Breast Cancer Alliance	$11,010
DONATIONS 499 OR LESS	$9,346
ARC OF WESTCHESTER	$8,500
TEMPLE BETH EL	$6,085
Donna Klein Jewish Academy	$5,000
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield Ct	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.4M · 66 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2023, 34 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+21%

Still filing today

68%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

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BRUCE MUSEUM INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
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ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +109%
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GREENWICH HOSPITAL
8× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +52%

Funded once

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +21%
HO
Heart of the VineSterling Fdn Mgmt
one grant, 2017 · $5k
SG
Sharon Greene Award Fund
one grant, 2018 · $3k

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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

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

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 177 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/91

Grantees still filing

60/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,190,731Arts & Culture$1,441,501Other$1,447,512Health$719,481International$138,955Education$27,865Food & Nutrition$18,719

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Crapple Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Resource Foundation Inc · Dr Joseph J Lawrence Trust Diana Serrell Trustee · Dalio Family Fund Inc · AllattWalsh Foundation · Heimbold Foundation Inc

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 William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely 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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