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D M Dilella Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$214k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$800kCrime & Legal$366kYouth Development$126kReligion$25kPhilanthropy$18kHealth$8kAnimals$6kSocial Science$5kOther$278k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION$50,000
FOUNDING FORWARD$37,500
PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION$25,000
LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC$25,000
THREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES$20,000
UATX$5,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH$5,000
MISES INSTITUTE$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION$5,000
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY$5,000
THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$4,300
PROVIDENCE ANIMAL CENTER$3,500
PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $5k → 12%THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%THREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 8%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $5k → 15%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $20k → 28%UATX: $5k → 10%ST JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH: $6k → 16%THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $29k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%GOODWILL: $12k → 7%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $506k → 10%THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $410k → 10%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $58k → 22%THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $263k → 10%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $35k → 22%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $250k → 14%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $60k → 10%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $245k → 22%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $71k → 22%LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $25k → 7%MT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY: $13k → 7%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $48k → 22%FOUNDING FORWARD: $38k → 22%UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $30k → 22%UNION LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $16k → 22%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $13k → 22%CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 22%CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $100k → 22%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $59k → 22%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $51k → 22%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $50k → 22%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $49k → 22%NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $25k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
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RI
DE
NC
DC
AL
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 21 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
43

Total granted

$2.6M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +50%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $143k · revenue +47%
  • FF
    FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION)
    3× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • AB
    American Battlefield Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +50%
  • UL
    UNION LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • MS
    MT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
10
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lodigiano Film Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFallen First Responder Supp…Independent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Community Health CentersVeteran Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr17%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr17%64%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,122

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $1,341,846 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY+7 more — $63,350 · EducationMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $333,832 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU…American Battlefield Trust — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield TrustTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $143,030 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC — $72,550 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOU…+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $366,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA …CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION — $90,500 · OtherCAHILL PROP…NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL KI…ST JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH — $21,000 · OtherST JOHN VIA…UNION LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $16,000 · OtherUNION LEAGU…MT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY — $12,500 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE — $12,000 · OtherGOODWILL — $12,000 · Other+47 more — $87,820 · Other+47 moreFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · ReligionTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN — $18,100 · Philanthropy
Education$1,405,196Arts & Culture$800,412Crime & Legal$366,000Other$296,820Youth Development$125,500Religion$25,000Philanthropy$18,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $1,341,846 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $366,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $333,832 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $143,030 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $115,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC — $72,550 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN — $18,100 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $10,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUATX — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $1,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNICO FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY — $950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEBBIE-RAND MEMORIAL SERVICE LEAGUE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON RESCUE SQUAD INC — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOBYHANNA TWP VOL FIRE CO — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Connelly FoundationThe Cedarcrest Charit…Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Chubb Charitable Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Communities Foundatio…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Connelly FoundationPA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization D M Dilella Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to D M Dilella Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to D M Dilella Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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