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Dicola Family Foundation of Hope at a glance

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Dicola Family Foundation of Hope

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$62k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$66kYouth Development$29kPhilanthropy$7kEnvironment$4kEducation$2kCrime & Legal$2kEmployment$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
$600
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT$25,518
BRIDGERCARE$18,386
BYEP$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,573
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$1,500
NFGHELP CENTER INC$1,030
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC$600
POS0000 GoFundMe$575
SIERRA CLUB$500
Project Kesher$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation$262
THE COVE SCHOOL$103
Individual grant recipient$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Foundation: $1k → 11%GIVEBUTTER NORTHFIELD: $517 → 11%National Forest Foundation: $105 → 9%BRIDGERCARE: $43k → 10%POS0000 GoFundMe: $575 → 7%SIERRA CLUB: $500 → 10%Project Kesher: $500 → 17%Greater Yellowstone Coalition: $1k → 8%NFGHELP CENTER INC: $1k → 14%REDBONE: $3k → 13%CMN DANCE MARATHON: $100 → 8%OMPRAKASH: $1k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $105 → 19%Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation: $500 → 14%30 DAY FUND - BARSTOOL: $1k → 8%Anxiety and Depression Association of America: $100 → 8%BRIDGERCARE: $18k → 10%GoFndMe Support for Davi: $563 → 7%BPLF-Berkeley Public Library Foundation: $500 → 10%Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation: $262 → 14%Fay Ranches Community Foundation: $5k → 10%GOFNDME PRIDE HOUSE A: $250 → 7%THE COVE SCHOOL: $103 → 14%BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: $3k → 10%GOFNDME CHICAGO MARAT: $113 → 7%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL REL: $500 → 14%YDCCF(Yellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation): $2k → 10%THRIVE: $1k → 14%HEADWATERS ACADEMY: $2k → 10%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC: $600 → 14%HRDC: $1k → 10%ONE VALLEY COMM FDN: $500 → 10%BOZEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $205 → 10%IVANKA ASAULYOK: $100 → 10%MONTANA MINDFULNESS: $3k → 10%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 4 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
19

Total granted

$126k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EnvironmentHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • B
    BRIDGERCARE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $62k · revenue +160%
  • B
    BYEP
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k
  • BS
    BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue -29%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REDBONE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -84%
  • YD
    Yellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +82%
  • TH
    THE HEADWATERS ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +5%
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
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
4
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
5
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
6
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
8
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
9
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
10
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGERCARE: $61,786 · OtherBRIDGERCAREBYEP: $35,000 · OtherBYEP+23 more: $16,086 · Other+23 moreBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $28,018 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWE…FAY RANCHES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INC: $1,044 · PhilanthropyBerkeley Public Library Foundation: $500 · PhilanthropyYellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation: $2,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $1,250 · EnvironmentTHE HEADWATERS ACADEMY INC: $1,500 · EducationTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $103 · EducationEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $762 · Housing & Shelter
Other$112,872Youth Development$28,018Philanthropy$6,544Environment$3,250Education$1,603Crime & Legal$1,500Housing & Shelter$762

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 budgetBRIDGERCARE: $61,786 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $28,018 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE REDBONE INC: $2,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEADWATERS ACADEMY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $1,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $762 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Library Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION: $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $100 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.

The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dicola Family Foundation of Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dicola Family Foundation of Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dicola Family Foundation of Hope?

    Find your warmest path to Dicola Family Foundation of Hope 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.

    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 35 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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