· Private foundation
Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $300
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $1,000,000 |
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $830,000 |
| THE WOODMERE ART MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND | $170,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART | $56,000 |
| NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC | $15,000 |
| THEATRE HORIZON | $10,000 |
| COMMUNICATION FIRST | $300 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–21, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC7× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +62%
- WAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM3× · 2020–2025 · $535k · revenue +180%
- PIPLAYPENN INC5× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HMHARWOOD MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
- PMPHILADLEPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
- TCTHE CLAY STUDIOone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -30%
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.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
The performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Contemporary and the most unlike its peers is The Relational Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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
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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CLAY STUDIO ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MAHLERFEST ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD POETRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds The Relational Center ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds Antenna ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICATION FIRST ↗
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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · The University of the Arts · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wyncote Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Connelly Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Lida Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial 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 Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation 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.
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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