New York · Nonprofit
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,030,491 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared funders
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio match
- The Cravens 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 10% · 2019 7% · 2021 5% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $240k → $341k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 44% · 2019 75% · 2020 67% · 2021 74% · 2022 70% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
32% of DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
98% of DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cravens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Transitcenter Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Road Runners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walentas Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seed Fund Grants Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Scherman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Gray Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 121 organizations near you
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $278k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$278k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC?
- DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,030,491 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,030,491 in grants to DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC 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 35funders 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