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Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library
Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,153 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($89,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Incshared funders
- North Country Library Systemportfolio match
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $16k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 73% · 2019 74% · 2020 91% · 2021 66% · 2022 64% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Incshared fundersNY · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- North Country Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florence Gould Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce & Daniel Cowin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hazen Polsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library?
- Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,153 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($89,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $167,153 in grants to Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $89,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing