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Dean M Graham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$77kScience & Tech$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kHealth$21kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$10kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$530k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARTWICK COLLEGE$5,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
STATE UNIVERSITY NY$3,000
SUNY COBLESKILL$2,500
BOYS TOWN RESEARCH HOSP$2,000
MiSci$2,000
ACCRF$2,000
CATSKILL CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
OLD STONE FORT MUSEUM$1,000
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION$1,000
MAHOOSUC LAND TRUST$1,000
NATL FOUNDATION CANCER$900
FRIENDS OF FIVE RIVERS$750
JEFFERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CO
NE
MD
AZ
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 25 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

$181k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+11%

Still filing today

40%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HC
    Hartwick College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +8%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FIVE RIVERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k
  • GS
    GILBOA-CONESVILLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
3
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

To advance and disseminate the science and practice of hepatology, and to promote liver health and quality patient care.

Health
4
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
5
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
6
National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

Health
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
9
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
10
National Kidney Foundation Inc

The national kidney foundation is revolutionizing the fight to save lives by eliminating preventable kidney disease, accelerating innovation for the dignity of the patient experience, and dismantling structural inequities in kidney care,…

Health
11
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
12
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Five Rivers 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUNY COBLESKILL — $20,500 · OtherSUNY COBLESKILLSTATE UNIVERSITY NY — $20,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY NYMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $8,250 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCEIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATL FOUNDATION CANCER — $5,950 · OtherNATL FOUNDATION CANCERJEFFERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL — $4,050 · OtherMiSci — $4,000 · Other+23 more — $34,275 · Other+23 moreHartwick College — $40,500 · EducationHartwick CollegeTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $3,050 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARYAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…FRIENDS OF FIVE RIVERS INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,750 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,350 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $850 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $450 · HealthNMDP FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Philanthropy
Other$111,025Education$43,550Human Services$25,000Environment$6,000Health$5,900Philanthropy$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHartwick College — $40,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FIVE RIVERS INC — $6,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $3,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUDLEY OBSERVATORY OF THE CITY OF ALBANY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Hartwick College
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FIVE RIVERS INC
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds DUDLEY OBSERVATORY OF THE CITY OF ALBANY INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dean M Graham 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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