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Dingman Family 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.

$206k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$63,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Dingman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterInternationalEducationHealthPublic BenefitHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$206k55%
FY202416$243k13%
FY202311$88k0%
FY202215$120k47%
FY202111$80k27%
FY20209$60k0%
FY201911$61kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$284kArts & Culture$165kHuman Services$109kEnvironment$85kHealth$70kEducation$30kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
VA
KS
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dingman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTransition House: $163,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Rescue Mission: $61,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association: $60,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHillside House: $49,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnsemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center: $14,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArden Shore Child and Family Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Raptor Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSansum Clinic: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCharity Navigator: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Dingman Family Foundation

How much does Dingman Family Foundation give?
Dingman Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $206,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Dingman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (33%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Dingman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Transition House ($163k), Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ($65k), Santa Barbara Rescue Mission ($61k).
Does Dingman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dingman Family 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 Dingman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
Where is Dingman Family Foundation based?
Dingman Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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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