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Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,381,245
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving8$1.6M13%
FY20245$291k40%
FY20238$281k38%
FY20228$206k38%
FY20215$209k40%
FY20205$95k0%
FY20196$95k83%
FY20185$92k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.4MEducation$673kEmployment$336kCommunity Improvement$227kHuman Services$187kHealth$25kReligion$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dickert Family Foundation$1,381,2451n/a
Laurel Highlands Workforce and Opportunity Center$335,903325%
The Learning Lamp Inc$314,05821%
Refugee Development Center$186,98465%
Ligonier Valley School District Foundati$43,354335%
Westmoreland County Community College$27,0001n/a
Kcs Angels Inc$25,000114%
The Latrobe Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra$5,00011%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($565k), not named here.

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9?

Find your warmest path to Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 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.

About Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9

How much does Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 give?
Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 reported 8 grants totaling $1,579,476 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Education (23%), Employment (12%).
Who are Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dickert Family Foundation ($1.4M), Laurel Highlands Workforce and Opportunity Center ($336k), The Learning Lamp Inc ($314k).
Does Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 based?
Dickert Family Foundation 62177-9 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 24 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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