Daftuar Family Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 47-4685449. Reported 51 grants totalling $10.1M to 33 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Daftuar Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $125,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $66,385 and $156,474; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $833,334. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich Academy Inc | Greenwich, CT | $2,900,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $1,666,667 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $833,333 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of North Texas Health Science Center | Fort Worth, TX | $366,195 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $354,133 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Klinikum Ernst Von Bergmann Gemeinnutzige Gmbh | Pottsdam | $304,660 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of the Pacific Web Depository | Stockton, CA | $250,995 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple University - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St George's University London | London | $244,453 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Zurich | Zurich | $197,815 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $147,140 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Padova | Padova | $140,346 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Leipzig | Leipzig | $136,416 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas a & M University College of Medicine | Bryan, TX | $133,617 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Macquarie University | Sydney | $127,802 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $125,730 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University | Stockton, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research | Palo Alto, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Universite Libre De Bruxelles | Bruxelles | $124,921 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Traumatology | Vienna | $121,694 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Expii Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lysearch Gmbh | Cologne | $98,767 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $96,831 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Charite Berlin | Berlin | $96,580 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Vincent's Institute for Medical Research | Fitzroy | $54,070 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston, TX | $48,094 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University Hospital Cologne | Cologne | $21,412 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology | Vienna | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lipedema Canada | Winnipeg | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
12 of 33 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 24%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
EMBEDDED ETHICS FUND AND QUANTUM INITIATIVE FUND - President and Fellows of Harvard University
HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES - Greenwich Academy Inc
CENTER FOR MATH EXCELLENCE AS PART OF LEAD THE WAY CAMPAIGN - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
RESEARCH PROPOSAL - "INVESTIGATION OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES AND RELATED DATA ABOUT LIPEDEMA" - Mayo Clinic
SUPPORT TRANSPLANT CENTER, CANCER CENTER, SCIENCE OF AI AND ALIX SCHOOL - St George's University London
RESEARCH PROPOSAL - "DECIPHERING THE GENETIC BASIS OF LIPEDEMA"
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $2,448,513 | $124,629 |
| 2022 | 8 | $1,504,646 | $129,308 |
| 2023 | 18 | $3,753,149 | $126,772 |
| 2024 | 13 | $2,376,863 | $100,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Daftuar Family Foundation has 22 of them, worth $6,960,720. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $1,666,666 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $833,333 |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | Greenwich, CT | $600,000 |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | Greenwich, CT | $600,000 |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | Greenwich, CT | $600,000 |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | Greenwich, CT | $600,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $500,000 |
| Universite Libre De Bruxelles | Bruxelles | $126,522 |
| Temple University - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | Philadelphia, PA | $125,742 |
| Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research | Palo Alto, CA | $125,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $125,000 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $125,000 |
| University of North Texas Health Science Center | Fort Worth, TX | $123,750 |
| University of the Pacific Web Depository | Stockton, CA | $118,137 |
Where its money goes
35% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $125,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Daftuar Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Pra LLC 450 Lex Ave 38TH Fl, New York, NY, 10017. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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