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Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 23-7227846. Reported 173 grants totalling $1,814,000 to 34 recipients across tax years 2019-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,814,000granted, 2019-2024
34recipients, as named on its returns
97%of grantees funded again the next year
$798,635assets, latest filing

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. Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
17 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
42 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
106 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Long Island Lutheran High SchoolBrookville, NY$180,000662024
Interfaith Nutrition NetworkHempstead, NY$125,000662024
Williamson College of the TradesMedia, PA$100,000662024
Long Island Alzheimers FoundationWestbury, NY$90,000662024
Native American Heritage AssociationFront Royal, VA$90,000662024
Water Missions InternationalN Charleston, SC$90,000662024
The Life Lutheran ChurchOld Westbury, NY$80,000442024
Inclusive Sports and Fitness IncHolbrook, NY$75,000662024
Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service TrusErlanger, KY$66,000662024
Covenant HouseNew York, NY$65,000662024
Direct ReliefSanta Barbara, CA$62,500662024
City Harvest IncNew York, NY$60,000662024
Food for the Poor IncCoconut Creek, FL$60,000662024
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind IncSmithtown, NY$60,000662024
Save the ChildrenFairfield, CT$60,000662024
St Joseph's Indian SchoolChamberlain, SD$60,000662024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$55,000662024
Salvation ArmyNew York, NY$37,500662024
Map InternationalBrunswick, GA$35,000662024
AmericaresStamford, CT$30,000662024
Canine Partners for LifeCochranville, PA$30,000662024
Children's Hunger FundMission Hills, CA$30,000662024
Fisher HouseRockville, MD$30,000662024
Folds of HonorOwasso, OK$30,000662024
Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots USBrookfield, WI$30,000332021
Stjosephs Rc Church Shepherd Table SkN Charleston, SC$30,000332024
Stjosephs Rc Church Shepherd Table SkLake Ronkonkoma, NY$30,000332021
The Society of Stvincent DepaulLake Ronkonkoma, NY$30,000332024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Charlotte CountyenglewoodPort Charlotte, FL$20,000112022
EnginRockville, MD$20,000332024
Tunnels to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$20,000222024
Lifetides InstituteRidgeland, SC$18,000662024
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of NyNew York, NY$10,000222020
Charity NavigatorSaddle Brook, NJ$5,000552023

33 of 34 (97%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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 97%, across 5 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 109 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.

International Affairs
36 grants
Human Services
17 grants
Education
14 grants
Food & Nutrition
12 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
6 grants
Recreation & Sports
6 grants
Environment
6 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
201928$300,000$10,000
202028$300,000$10,000
202128$300,000$10,000
202230$312,500$10,000
202330$302,500$10,000
202429$299,000$10,000

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.

Where its money goes

51% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$918K
South Carolina
$138K
Pennsylvania
$130K
California
$92K
Connecticut
$90K
Virginia
$90K
Florida
$80K
Kentucky
$66K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation10 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). 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: 1 Rockefeller Plaza 7TH Fl, New York, NY, 10020. 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.

EIN 23-7227846 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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