· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival | $25,000 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dion Banks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dion Banks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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