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Charles a Dailey 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,373
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,525
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Charles a Dailey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$68k63%
FY202410$66k50%
FY20239$63k56%
FY202210$69k30%
FY202112$53k33%
FY202015$64k20%
FY201913$65k46%
FY201813$63k38%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$114kHealth$80kHuman Services$61kEnvironment$48kReligion$41kYouth Development$36kHousing & Shelter$31kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie$42,21630%
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$36,32070%
Foundation for Eries Public Schools$34,25025%
Erie Center for Arts and Technology Inc$26,50021%
Kaleidascope Inc$26,16171%
Chosen Inc$24,85012%
St Peters Cathedral$22,7754n/a
Emmaus Ministries$17,0752n/a
All About Character Inc$16,800213%
Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc$15,61011%
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All grantees of Charles a Dailey Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie$42,21630%
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$36,32070%
Foundation for Eries Public Schools$34,25025%
Erie Center for Arts and Technology Inc$26,50021%
Kaleidascope Inc$26,16171%
Chosen Inc$24,85012%
St Peters Cathedral$22,7754n/a
Emmaus Ministries$17,0752n/a
All About Character Inc$16,800213%
Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc$15,61011%
Mercy Center for Women Inc$15,39121%
Mercyhurst Preparatory School$13,6969n/a
Erie United Methodist Alliance$12,68911%
Tandem Friends School of Charlottesville$12,58950%
Therapy Dogs United Inc$10,0001n/a
Serverie$8,00012%
Early Connections Inc$8,00010%
Renaissance School$7,42540%
Erie Zoological Society$7,00010%
Northwestern Pennsylvania Humane Society D/B/A Erie Humane Society$7,00010%
Performa Inc$5,65020%
Loaves & Fishes Inc$3,3911n/a
Miami Country Day School Inc$3,37310%
Reading and Education for Adult Development$3,37310%
Mercyhurst University$3,37310%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$3,12010%
Veterans Miracle Center$2,25021%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$2,05020%
Upper Room of Erie$2,0001n/a
New York Academy of Art$1,90010%
Maymont Foundation$1,65710%
Safenet Inc$1,56010%
Rx Art Inc$1,00010%
Voss Foundation Inc$50010%
Georgetown University$40010%
St Jude Shrine$3502n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles a Dailey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCity Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie: $42,216 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Pennsylvania Conservancy: $36,320 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Eries Public Schools: $34,250 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetErie Center for Arts and Technology Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKaleidascope Inc: $26,161 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetChosen Inc: $24,850 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAll About Character Inc: $16,800 over 2y, 13% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Erie Inc: $15,610 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMercy Center for Women Inc: $15,391 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetErie United Methodist Alliance: $12,689 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTandem Friends School of Charlottesville: $12,589 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetServerie: $8,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEarly Connections Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRenaissance School: $7,425 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetErie Zoological Society: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern Pennsylvania Humane Society D/B/A Erie Humane Society: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPerforma Inc: $5,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMiami Country Day School Inc: $3,373 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading and Education for Adult Development: $3,373 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercyhurst University: $3,373 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Miracle Center: $2,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Academy of Art: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaymont Foundation: $1,657 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafenet Inc: $1,560 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRx Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVoss Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgetown University: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Erie Community FoundationPA46× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Merwin Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Charles a Dailey Foundation

How much does Charles a Dailey Foundation give?
Charles a Dailey Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $67,548 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles a Dailey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (14%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Charles a Dailey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie ($42k), Western Pennsylvania Conservancy ($36k), Foundation for Eries Public Schools ($34k).
Does Charles a Dailey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles a Dailey 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 Charles a Dailey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, Wabtec Foundation, M J Surgala Tr.
Where is Charles a Dailey Foundation based?
Charles a Dailey Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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