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Dalio 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k65 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+41 grants · $43M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TISBEST PHILANTHROPY | $6,901,200 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $5,000,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC | $3,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $3,000,000 |
| GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC | $2,250,000 |
| CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC | $2,000,000 |
| DAVID LYNCH FDN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE | $1,025,000 |
| NIA TERO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| TED FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| GRAMEEN AMERICA INC | $1,000,000 |
| DOMUS KIDS INC | $1,000,000 |
| OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE INC | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC | $1,000,000 |
| SCRATCH FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($92M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($11M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($11M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Dalio Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 155 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION4× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +35%
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC2× · 2020–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +8%
- CRCONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC2× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +36% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- BDBEIJING DALIO PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8.4M
- THTHE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -59% · 76% of their budget
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $595k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
270 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. 270 of the 310 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TISBEST PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRLTREK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NIA TERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Scratch Foundation ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dalio Family Fund Inc · Tisbest Philanthropy · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The New York Community Trust · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut
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 Dalio 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sun Scholars Inc — 87% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Rise Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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