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Dickinson Family Inc Foundation at a glance

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Dickinson Family Inc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$78kHealth$60kYouth Development$34kFood & Nutrition$24kArts & Culture$19kAnimals$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$7,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$895k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABUNDANT LIFE MISSION$16,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY$15,000
M&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC$7,550
MENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD INC$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE SPIES PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
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 (FY21–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 12%MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 10 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$275k
$4k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AL
    ABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue +12%
  • TT
    TEAM TYPE 1 INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2024 · $33k

Funded once

  • HY
    HEALTHY YOUTH COALITION MARINETTEMENOMINEE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF MARINETTE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Person County Rescue Squad

Emergency rescue and first aid

Health
2
Bainbridge-Decatur County Humane Society Inc

Animal shelter

Animals
3
Manchester Ambulance Club

Ambulatory and emergency medical services

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4
Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc

To provide shelter to the homeless community in merrill wi

Housing & Shelter
5
Duncannon Emergency Medical Services Inc

Volunteer ambulance service for local community and surrounding area

—
6
North Baldwin Animal Shelter Inc

To provide housing for stray and abandoned animals.

Animals
7
Muscatine Humane Society Inc

Care of cats and dogs

Animals
8
Marion County Humane Society

The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…

Animals
9
Marion Rescue Squad Inc

Rescue service for marion county

Health
10
White Mills Fire Department Inc

Protection of citizens in our fire protection area.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
The Betty J Martin Life House for Animals Inc

Adoption and sheltering of animals

Animals
12
Mercy Ems Inc

Provide emergency medical care/ambulance service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emergency Rescue Squad Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dar Boys & Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,560 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $30,821 · OtherDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUBST VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY: $24,250 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRYIndividual grant recipient: $13,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC: $9,500 · OtherTWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC+4 more: $9,450 · Other+4 moreABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC: $56,021 · ReligionABUNDANT LIFE MISSION …TEAM TYPE 1 INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTEAM TYPE 1 INCMARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC: $21,822 · Human ServicesM&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $19,300 · Arts & CultureMENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $17,250 · Animals
Other$120,381Religion$56,021Philanthropy$50,000Human Services$21,822Arts & Culture$19,300Animals$17,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC: $56,021 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTEAM TYPE 1 INC: $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $30,821 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC: $21,822 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetM&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $19,300 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $17,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC: $9,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetEMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM TYPE 1 INC ↗
  • Who funds DAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds M&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗

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.

M & M Area Community …Provident Health Foun…Wisconsin Public Serv…Amazonsmile Foundation
M & M Area Community FoundationMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M & M Area Community Foundation · Provident Health Foundation of Marinette/Menominee Inc · Wisconsin Public Service 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 14 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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