· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SCRATCH FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN | $1,000,000 |
| DOMUS KIDS INC | $1,000,000 |
| GRAMEEN AMERICA INC | $1,000,000 |
| OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE INC | $1,000,000 |
| NIA TERO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($11M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Dalio Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
How this is measured
270 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLTREK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTE ↗
- 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 FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dalio Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dalio Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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