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Dean Foundation Children (Ima)

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.

$220k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dean Foundation Children (Ima) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$220k0%
FY202411$187k0%
FY202311$187k0%
FY202212$204k8%
FY202113$214k15%
FY202013$264kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$560kHealth$152kEducation$110kRecreation & Sports$110kCommunity Improvement$110kHousing & Shelter$90kAnimals$88kCivil Rights$56k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Dean Foundation Children (Ima) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
18 Degrees Inc$110,00060%
Cambridge Camping Association Inc$110,00063%
East Boston Social Centers Inc$110,00060%
Ellis Early Learning Inc$110,00060%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$110,00060%
Nurtury Inc$110,00060%
Douglas a Thom Clinic Inc$110,00060%
East End House Inc$110,00061%
South Boston Neighborhood House Inc$90,00051%
City Mission Inc$56,00032%
Child and Family Services Inc$37,00020%
Room to Grow National Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dean Foundation Children (Ima) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget18 Degrees Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCambridge Camping Association Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetEast Boston Social Centers Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEllis Early Learning Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNurtury Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDouglas a Thom Clinic Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEast End House Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSouth Boston Neighborhood House Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCity Mission Inc: $56,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetChild and Family Services Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoom to Grow National Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Franklin Square House Foundation Inc · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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.

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About Dean Foundation Children (Ima)

How much does Dean Foundation Children (Ima) give?
Dean Foundation Children (Ima) reported 11 grants totaling $220,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Dean Foundation Children (Ima) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (12%), Education (9%).
Who are Dean Foundation Children (Ima)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: 18 Degrees Inc ($110k), Cambridge Camping Association Inc ($110k), East Boston Social Centers Inc ($110k).
Does Dean Foundation Children (Ima) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dean Foundation Children (Ima) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dean Foundation Children (Ima)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Dean Foundation Children (Ima) based?
Dean Foundation Children (Ima) is based in PA.

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 16 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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