Delaware · Private foundation
Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $74k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $75k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $65k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $76k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Hospice | $55,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Rise Up Foundation of Worcester County | $45,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Tidalhealth Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Unstoppable Joy Co | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc | $20,250 | 3 | 1% |
| U S Kennels Incorporated | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| We Heart Berlin Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Horizons Delmarva Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Henry Hotel Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Hospice | $55,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Rise Up Foundation of Worcester County | $45,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Tidalhealth Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Unstoppable Joy Co | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc | $20,250 | 3 | 1% |
| U S Kennels Incorporated | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| We Heart Berlin Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Horizons Delmarva Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Henry Hotel Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Berlin Fire Company Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Worcester County Gold Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Little Creek Volunteer Fire Company | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Grace Center for Maternal and Womens Health Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Raymond a Wood Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Unite for HER | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Joshua M Freeman Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roanoke College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pursuit for Peace Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Diakonia Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Captain Steve's Poor Girls Open Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| There Goes My Hero Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worcester County Humane Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · L Franklin Purnell Foundation · Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645 · Patricia and Alan Guerrieri Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation
- How much does Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation give?
- Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $74,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Public Safety & Disaster (21%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Coastal Hospice ($55k), Rise Up Foundation of Worcester County ($45k), Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company ($45k).
- Does Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor, Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc, Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc.
- Where is Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation based?
- Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation is based in DE.
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