DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FIGHTING AIDS INC

EIN 13-3224150 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024: $914,439
Expenses 2024: $1,225,863

Program services were 71.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: G81J
Classification: 1000
Street: 322 W 52ND ST 228

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DIFFA grants funds to organizations providing aid and access to healthcare for a diverse group of people impacted by HIV/AIDS, food & housing insecurities, and mental health issues.

Grant program - supports organizations that have programs designed to fight against AIDS.

Expenses $608,132 · Grants $453,700
Training and Education - provision of information and education to firms and associations through printed materials, presentations, and referrals.

Expenses $262,537

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Dawn Roberson

Executive Direc

Total calculated

$137,837

From this org

$137,837

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

35
Cindy Allen

Chair Emeritus

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Joan MacKeith

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Tina Brennan

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Christine Abbate

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Jamie Gagliano

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Jon Otis

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Brooke Horan

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
GARY WHEELER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DONNA FISHEL

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Thomas Polucci

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Dereine Coleman

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Jennifer Schimmel

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Richard Lombard

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Jonas Gabbai

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Lauren Corbin

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Yiannos Vrousgas

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Katherina Plath

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Abigail French

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
David Rockwell

Chair Emeritus

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Richard Rivas

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Tyler Offut

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$914,439

Expenses

$1,225,863

Contributions

$441,156

Grants paid

$453,700
2023

Revenue

$1,397,400

Expenses

$1,428,969

Contributions

$543,334

Grants paid

$657,500
2022

Revenue

$1,021,698

Expenses

$1,491,081

Contributions

$361,689

Grants paid

$612,500

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$914,439	$1,225,863	$441,156	$453,700
2023	$1,397,400	$1,428,969	$543,334	$657,500
2022	$1,021,698	$1,491,081	$361,689	$612,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$1,463,306

Expenses

$1,262,041

Assets (EOY)

$2,375,845
2020 · 990

Revenue

$819,446

Expenses

$728,687

Assets (EOY)

$1,908,919
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,430,711

Expenses

$1,374,161

Assets (EOY)

$1,970,819
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,900,717

Expenses

$2,033,897

Assets (EOY)

$1,905,952
2017 · 990

Revenue

$2,727,380

Expenses

$2,405,462

Assets (EOY)

$2,239,469
2016 · 990

Revenue

$2,648,167

Expenses

$2,474,181

Assets (EOY)

$2,009,776
2015 · 990

Revenue

$2,583,252

Expenses

$2,520,303

Assets (EOY)

$1,802,866
2014 · 990

Revenue

$1,941,587

Expenses

$1,763,166

Assets (EOY)

$1,480,086
2013 · 990

Revenue

$1,832,873

Expenses

$1,679,516

Assets (EOY)

$1,292,986
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$1,640,695

Assets (EOY)

$1,155,488

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,463,306	$1,262,041	$2,375,845
2020	990	$819,446	$728,687	$1,908,919
2019	990	$1,430,711	$1,374,161	$1,970,819
2018	990	$1,900,717	$2,033,897	$1,905,952
2017	990	$2,727,380	$2,405,462	$2,239,469
2016	990	$2,648,167	$2,474,181	$2,009,776
2015	990	$2,583,252	$2,520,303	$1,802,866
2014	990	$1,941,587	$1,763,166	$1,480,086
2013	990	$1,832,873	$1,679,516	$1,292,986
2012	990	not reported	$1,640,695	$1,155,488

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

New York Community Trust

$160,000

2022 Charitable
New York Community Trust

$142,000

2023 Charitable
WI Cook Foundation Inc

$25,000

2022 Charitable
Prism Health North Texas

$25,000

2022 Charitable
AIDS Outreach Center

$25,000

2023 Charitable
HELP Center

$25,000

2022 Charitable
Legal Hospice of Texas

$25,000

2022 Charitable
Legacy Counseling Center Inc

$25,000

2022 Charitable
AIDS Interfaith Network

$25,000

2023 Charitable
Resource Center of Dallas

$25,000

2022 Charitable

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$46,750

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$32,213

2023 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$20,500

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$14,988

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$12,225

2024 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

$10,020

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

$7,465

2022 CHARITABLE DONATION
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$0

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FIGHTING AIDS-CHICAGO INC

On its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.