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Dillon Family Foundation

Type I supporting organization under irc section 509(a)(3) to seattle foundation.

$6.4M
Granted FY2017
5
Grants FY2017
4
Organizations funded FY2017
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95% of Dillon Family Foundation’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Seattle Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2017
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$6,095,407
States reached, FY2017
3

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington Foundation$250,0001n/a
The University of Puget Sound$50,00010%
American Prairie Foundation$25,00010%
Wellness Foundation$10,0001n/a

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About Dillon Family Foundation

How much does Dillon Family Foundation give?
Dillon Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $6,432,407 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Dillon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (95%), Education (5%), Environment (0%).
Who are Dillon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: University of Washington Foundation ($250k), The University of Puget Sound ($50k), American Prairie Foundation ($25k).
Where is Dillon Family Foundation based?
Dillon Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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