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Dean Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$183kHealth$164kHuman Services$106kReligion$66kEducation$47kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA$15,000
COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
UCSE SCIA ANGELS LEGACY FUND$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES$10,000
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES$10,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
FRIEND OF THE EVERGLADES$10,000
WATERMARK OC CHURCH$10,000
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTRY$5,000
ACUE$5,000
LOVELAND CENTER$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES: $10k → 7%WATERMARK OC CHURCH: $10k → 10%ACUE: $7k → 14%LOVELAND CENTER: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES: $10k → 10%JHACF: $5k → 12%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%ST JUDES: $6k → 17%CASA FOR KIDS: $9k → 9%MARCH OF DIMES: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN KY: $8k → 10%COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY: $25k → 15%MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES: $5k → 7%OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $5k → 10%ACUE: $6k → 14%LOVELAND CENTER: $5k → 9%FRIEND OF THE EVERGLADES: $10k → 10%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%ST JUDES: $6k → 17%CASA FOR KIDS: $8k → 9%MARCH OF DIMES: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN KY: $6k → 10%NOTRE DAME ACADEMY: $8k → 11%ACUE: $5k → 14%LOVELAND CENTER: $5k → 9%GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%CASA FOR KIDS: $7k → 9%MARCH OF DIMES: $5k → 7%COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 11%VENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 9%YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $15k → 16%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%VENICE THEATRE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $10k → 16%MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 9%BAYLA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST DISASTER: $13k → 9%MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 9%SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $19k → 16%SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $14k → 16%SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%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

WA
IL
MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 19 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
27

Total granted

$338k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+24%

Still filing today

37%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • LC
    LOVELAND CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +595%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +145%
  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -86%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY SUNCOAST DISASTER
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • VT
    VENICE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +91%
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
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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2
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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3
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
4
Heart of Florida United Way Inc

The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.

Philanthropy
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
United Way of Charlotte County Inc

Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.

Philanthropy
10
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $90,500 · OtherSCID ANGELS FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONCASA FOR KIDS: $27,000 · OtherCASA FOR KIDSMEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherMEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUnited Way of Midland County: $20,000 · OtherACUE: $18,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN KY: $16,500 · OtherCOVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $15,000 · OtherLOVELAND CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherVENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherUNITED WAY SUNCOAST DISASTER: $13,000 · Other+23 more: $112,340 · Other+23 moreMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $106,000 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUN…GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMARCH OF DIMES INC: $17,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · HealthHealthy Moms & Babes Inc: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $1,440 · HealthNorthwood University: $10,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · EducationOASIS FOR ORPHANS: $2,500 · EducationLEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC: $1,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $1,000 · EducationFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $700 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentVENICE THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 · International
Other$381,340Philanthropy$157,500Health$33,440Education$20,200Environment$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000International$15,000

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 budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOVELAND CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwood University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS FOR ORPHANS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealthy Moms & Babes Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARACTER COACHING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $440 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.

  • Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VENICE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwood University ↗
  • Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds OASIS FOR ORPHANS ↗
  • Who funds Healthy Moms & Babes 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.

Publix Super Markets …Baird Foundation IncGeorge Jenkins Founda…Cps Cares IncIron Horse Family Fou…Glenn W & Hazelle Pax…Harrell Family Charit…The Charles J Strosac…The Herbert H & Grace…Raymond James Charita…United Way WorldwideThe Pfizer Foundation…
Publix Super Markets Charities IncFL16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Cps Cares Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Dean Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Venice Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 53 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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