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Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation at a glance

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Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.9MEnvironment$422kHuman Services$135kCivil Rights$300
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $300
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$170,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $80k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $60k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
RI
CA
CO
NM
DC
HI
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 21 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$19M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-30%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +62%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2025 · $535k · revenue +180%
  • PI
    PLAYPENN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HM
    HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $2.5M
  • PM
    PHILADLEPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • TC
    THE CLAY STUDIO
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Moore College of Art and Design

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…

Education
4
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
5
The Performance Art Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
Baltimore Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Contemporary; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $4,275,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSICWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $535,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $1,086,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreHARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART: $2,500,000 · OtherHARWOOD MUSEUM OF ARTWESTTOWN SCHOOL: $2,500,000 · OtherWESTTOWN SCHOOLPHILADLEPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000,000 · OtherPHILADLEPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,880,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $422,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTSCULTURAL MEDIA COLLABORATIVE: $390,700 · Other+5 more: $380,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $175,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $82,000 · EducationOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $52,500 · Education+2 more: $800 · EducationWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $135,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $80,000 · Human ServicesThe Relational Center: $40,000 · PhilanthropyASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $25,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$13,896,000Other$10,072,700Education$810,300Human Services$215,000Philanthropy$40,000Employment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $4,275,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $535,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO: $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $180,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $160,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPLAYPENN INC: $140,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $135,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHEATER FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $82,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD POETRY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHEATRE HORIZON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAntenna: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNICATION FIRST: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…The University of the…The Philadelphia Cult…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wyncote FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…Connelly FoundationThe Pew Charitable Tr…The Lida FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…
The William Penn FoundationPA27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Daniel W Dietrich II Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 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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