Maryland · Private foundation
Dietrich American 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $766,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Dietrich American Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $657k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $725k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $887k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $303k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $267k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $121k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | $2,948,480 | 7 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $471,408 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $191,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Crane Foundation Inc | $101,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Minnesota Zoo Foundation | $67,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Endangered Species Fund | $62,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Focused Conservation Solutions Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Washington Ballet | $54,400 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($357k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dietrich American Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Seattle Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dietrich American Foundation
- How much does Dietrich American Foundation give?
- Dietrich American Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,171,383 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dietrich American Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (20%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Dietrich American Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wesleyan University ($2.9M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($471k), Food Bank for New York City ($191k).
- Does Dietrich American Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dietrich American Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dietrich American Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Seattle Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Dietrich American Foundation based?
- Dietrich American Foundation is based in MD.
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