· Private foundation
Dickes Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Dickes Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Steuben County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Dickes Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $58k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATIO | $10,500 |
| NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| GPS GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Crossover Mission | $5,000 |
| Hunter Museum of American Art | $5,000 |
| Riverside Theatre | $4,500 |
| THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIV MED | $4,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 291 | $3,000 |
| WOODLANDS ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEA | $2,500 |
| MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $2,500 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| University Club FoundATION | $2,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $14k) 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.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of Dickes Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +24%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +483%
- GPGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- LMLITTLE MISS MAG EARLY LEARNINGone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TWTHE WOMANS BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TCTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES ↗
- Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINENCE ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BELOVED THE MOLLY JANE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Giving Tree Acres Community Farm ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Chrysalis Foundation · Hamico Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dickes Family Charitable 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
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.