· Private foundation
Dean Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $17,500 |
| PEPITAS PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| HAGLEY MUSEUM & LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $7,000 |
| BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WHYY | $5,000 |
| PALMER LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO | $5,000 |
| YDA | $5,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE WALDORF SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
96 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Elon University9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +43%- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +58%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art7× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- POPilatus Owners & Pilots Assocone grant, 2024 · $19k
- FFFILM FORUM INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +12%
- TWThe Way Homeone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
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The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
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How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 158 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
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.
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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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · Marmot Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dean Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children and Families First: 87% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc: 28% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc: 19% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware: 18% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
- Historic Odessa Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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