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Dion Banks 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of Dion Banks Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Autism Society of the Keys | $100,000 |
| Florida Petroleum Marketers Scholarship Fund Inc | $60,000 |
| Basilica School of Saint Mary Star of the Sea | $60,000 |
| Samuel's House Inc | $50,000 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | $25,000 |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival | $25,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $20,000 |
| Wesley House Family Services | $10,000 |
| Womankind | $6,149 |
| VA Services of North Adams | $4,000 |
| Key West Retired Catholic Priests Fund Inc | $3,000 |
| Key West Area Chief Petty Officer Association Inc | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SOSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $286k · revenue +5%
- ASAUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $181k · revenue +29%
- HFHonor Flight South Florida Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SJSt John The Evangelist Catholic Schoolone grant, 2018 · $78k
- SJSt John Catholic Schoolone grant, 2021 · $50k
- FPFLORIDA PETROLEUM MARKETERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
Our mission is to make safe, affordable, dignified, and desirable housing available to low income residents within and throughout monroe county florida
Promoting the humane treatment of all animals through compassionate care, adoption, education, population control and humane law enforcement. Activities include: animal control, low cost spay & neuter and wellness clinic, adoption,…
Dedicated to uniting physicians to serve the common interest of the profession, developing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of the medical profession, advocating the interest of physicians and their patients,…
To preserve Key Wests Little White House, Floridas only presidential museum, and programming that supports civic engagement, education, and the historic and cultural influences of the Truman era.
Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.
To provide financial assistance for medical, social, educational, advocacy, normalcy other personal needs or requests of and/or for abused, abandoned, neglected children those otherwise in financial, physical or emotional need in monroe…
To promote moving-picture media as an essential art form to educate and engage members and visitors through the presentation of film, video, and new media. To maintain and develop Tropic Cinema as the principal venue for the Key West Film…
To promote the civic, economic and social welfare of the citizens of southwest florida. the mission of the chamber of southwest florida is to be a regional business organization that builds leadership as a strategic contribution to the…
To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).
The good health clinic serves as a primary healthcare home for low-income, uninsured residents of the florida keys; providing and coordinating free health services for those in need.
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Botanical Garden Society and the most unlike its peers is Florida Petroleum Marketers Scholarship Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Petroleum Marketers Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANKIND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds BAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PETROLEUM MARKETERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST AREA CHIEF PETTY OFFICER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · Klaus Murphy Fdn · Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc · Lookout Foundation Inc · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dion Banks Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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