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Dickinson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$731k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$9.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Dickinson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k 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
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving20$731k15%
FY202418$696k50%
FY202315$147k27%
FY202223$308k48%
FY202114$323k43%
FY202015$145k67%
FY201912$320k25%
FY201814$288k21%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$701kArts & Culture$660kRecreation & Sports$529kHuman Services$120kYouth Development$107kHealth$62kHousing & Shelter$60kReligion$55kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC

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
Kent School$555,00060%
Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc$533,00084%
Golf Gives Inc$325,000264%
YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc$300,00021%
NoticeAbility Inc$140,000610%
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc$100,0001n/a
Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc$60,50061%
America Meditating Inc$60,0002n/a
Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc$52,50071%
Island Housing Trust Corporation$50,00090%
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All grantees of Dickinson Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kent School$555,00060%
Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc$533,00084%
Golf Gives Inc$325,000264%
YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc$300,00021%
NoticeAbility Inc$140,000610%
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc$100,0001n/a
Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc$60,50061%
America Meditating Inc$60,0002n/a
Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc$52,50071%
Island Housing Trust Corporation$50,00090%
Morgan Hoffmann Foundation$50,0001n/a
Peters Valley School of Craft Inc$45,75032%
Great Harbor Association Inc$40,000231%
Mv Youth Inc$30,00040%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$30,00020%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation$25,00020%
Williams College$25,00040%
Friends of Philip's Newark Inc$25,00011%
Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc$20,00020%
Your Kids Our Kids Inc$20,000219%
Wnet$19,00050%
Martha's Vineyard Art Association$18,50052%
The Newark Museum Association$18,00020%
Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc$17,50031%
The Willow School Inc$11,00010%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$10,00010%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Spectrum Youth and Family Services Inc$10,00010%
Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc$10,00020%
Featherstone Center for the Arts Inc$9,30050%
Arts Ignite Inc$5,00011%
Lake Champlain Waldorf School$5,00010%
Community Partners$5,00010%
Manhattan Class Company Inc$5,00010%
Windmark Sailing Foundation Inc$4,00010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$3,00020%
Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc$3,00011%
Boys and Girls Club of Paterson and Passaic Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dickinson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKent School: $555,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: $533,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetGolf Gives Inc: $325,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNoticeAbility Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $60,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: $52,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetIsland Housing Trust Corporation: $50,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPeters Valley School of Craft Inc: $45,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGreat Harbor Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetMv Youth Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Philip's Newark Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYour Kids Our Kids Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWnet: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Art Association: $18,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Newark Museum Association: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Willow School Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpectrum Youth and Family Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeatherstone Center for the Arts Inc: $9,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetArts Ignite Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLake Champlain Waldorf School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Partners: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Class Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWindmark Sailing Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Paterson and Passaic Inc: $2,000 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 35.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Pearson-Rappaport Foundation · Beagary Charitable Trust · Hoerle Foundation Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Glff Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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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Find your warmest path to Dickinson Family Foundation Inc 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 Dickinson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Dickinson Family Foundation Inc give?
Dickinson Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $730,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dickinson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (26%), Recreation & Sports (21%).
Who are Dickinson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kent School ($555k), Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc ($533k), Golf Gives Inc ($325k).
Does Dickinson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dickinson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dickinson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, The Stanton Family Foundation.
Where is Dickinson Family Foundation Inc based?
Dickinson Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 63 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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