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Dickes Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Dickes Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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

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

01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATIO$10,500
GPS GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL$5,000
Crossover Mission$5,000
Hunter Museum of American Art$5,000
NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$5,000
THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIV MED$4,500
Riverside Theatre$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
University Club FoundATION$2,000
JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION$2,000
INDIAN HILL club SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDA$1,000
CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IN
UT
VA
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of Dickes Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dickes Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$359k · 21 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
23

Total granted

$359k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +483%
  • GP
    GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • LM
    LITTLE MISS MAG EARLY LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • TW
    THE WOMANS BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN ME
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • TC
    THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Augustana College

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…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Point Park University

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…

—
8
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Illinois College

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…

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
12
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,500 · PhilanthropySTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,500 · PhilanthropyHADLEY INSTITUTE: $74,500 · OtherHADLEY INSTITUTETHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIV MED: $33,940 · OtherTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIV MEDKENILWORTH UNION CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherKENILWORTH UNION CHURCHHUNTER ART MUSEUM: $13,000 · OtherHUNTER ART MUSEUMTHE WOMEN'S FUND OF CHATTANOOGA: $9,600 · OtherNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $14,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE+22 more: $52,600 · Other+22 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTAN…GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $33,667 · EducationGIRLS PREPARATORY SCH…Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation: $6,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Education+3 more: $5,500 · EducationHunter Museum of American Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCLEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · EnvironmentCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$265,000Other$212,640Education$132,667Arts & Culture$31,000Recreation & Sports$17,000Environment$16,000Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,500 over 2y, 2.1% of 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
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.

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 Founda…Chattanooga Christian…The Chrysalis Foundat…Hamico IncBenwood Foundation IncThe Maclellan Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dickes Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dickes Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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