Texas · Private foundation
Dickson-Allen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 114
- Grants FY2024
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $785,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $86M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Dickson-Allen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 109 | $5.0M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $4.2M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $3.8M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $4.1M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavaca Exposition Association | $1,440,200 | 5 | 83% |
| Witte Museum | $900,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Victoria College Foundation Inc | $892,316 | 5 | 7% |
| Hallettsville Volunteer Fire Department | $766,600 | 5 | 69% |
| Hallettsville Isd | $724,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Trinity University | $690,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $560,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art | $525,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sheridan Community Center | $349,000 | 5 | 49% |
| Lavaca Historical Museum | $295,000 | 5 | 71% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dickson-Allen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Fayette Resale Incorporated · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Gvec Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · RICHTER RESPONSIBILITY FUND FKA Holt Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dickson-Allen Foundation
- How much does Dickson-Allen Foundation give?
- Dickson-Allen Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $4,990,410 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Dickson-Allen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (10%).
- Who are Dickson-Allen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lavaca Exposition Association ($1.4M), Witte Museum ($900k), Victoria College Foundation Inc ($892k).
- Does Dickson-Allen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dickson-Allen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dickson-Allen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation.
- Where is Dickson-Allen Foundation based?
- Dickson-Allen Foundation is based in TX.
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