New York · Nonprofit
DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC
DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,038 to it, the largest being LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC ($675,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Expanded Schools Incshared funders
- Dippell Family Foundationportfolio match
- Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Incportfolio 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.
84% of DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $170k → $14k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC’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
DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 98% · 2019 78% · 2020 66% · 2021 88% · 2022 65% · 2023 71% — 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
50% of DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
99% of DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND 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. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
- Expanded Schools Incshared fundersNY · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Dippell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council No 9portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fraternal Order of Police Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gottesman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plumbers Local Union No 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Tmstrs Local 282 Tcwhportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Insurance Plan of Greater New Yorkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- KAP 508 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 DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Dea Health Benefits Fund-Retirees · exempt
- Dea Health Benefits Fund-Active · exempt
- Dea Annuity Fund · exempt
- Detectives Endowment Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC?
- DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,038 to it, the largest being LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC ($675,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $895,038 in grants to DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC?
- LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND 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 9funders 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