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Dickes Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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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

9
’20
12
’21
9
’22
18
’23
13
’24
13
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
15 to 22
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Dickes Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$58k35%
FY202322$101k45%
FY202215$66k27%
FY202120$93k65%
FY202015$63kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$276kEducation$146kScience & Tech$75kHealth$48kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$17kEnvironment$16kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IN
UT
VA
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wake Forest University$40,00020%
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc$37,50050%
Girls Preparatory School Inc$33,66760%
Northwestern University$17,00050%
Hunter Museum of American Art$15,00030%
Crossover Mission Inc$15,00030%
Kenilworth Union Church$15,0004n/a
Riverside Theatre Inc$14,00030%
Northside Neighborhood House$14,00030%
Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes$10,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dickes Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWake Forest University: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chattanooga Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Preparatory School Inc: $33,667 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCrossover Mission Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthside Neighborhood House: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation: $6,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcKee Botanical Garden Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClear Lake Township Land Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Association for Continence: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Club Foundation: $4,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDuke University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Creek Conservancy: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's Fund of Greater Chattanooga: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetProject Beloved the Molly Jane Mission: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe John's Island Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnections for the Homeless Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinnetka Community House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Josselyn Center Nfp: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Visual Artists: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Antiquarian Society: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSarah's Circle: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 32.

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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.

Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dickes Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Dickes Family Charitable Foundation give?
Dickes Family Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $58,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Dickes Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Education (21%), Science & Tech (11%).
Who are Dickes Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wake Forest University ($40k), University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc ($38k), Girls Preparatory School Inc ($34k).
Does Dickes Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dickes Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dickes Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Chrysalis Foundation.
Where is Dickes Family Charitable Foundation based?
Dickes Family Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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