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Dion Family Foundation at a glance

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Dion Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$613k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MHealth$660kReligion$597kHousing & Shelter$550kHuman Services$110kArts & Culture$55kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $505k
$33,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DOMINIC ACADEMY$200,000
SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE$200,000
COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC$55,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$50,000
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA$33,000
GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
NAPLES BALLET AND COMPANY INC$10,000
CATHOLIC WORLD MISSION GA INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MANASOTA SOLVE INC: $5k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $25k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $16k → 10%CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD INC: $10k → 12%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 12 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$3.5M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+34%

Still filing today

58%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $545k · revenue +110%
  • COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +10%
  • GP
    GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • MC
    Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +188%
  • SM
    SIR MORTIMER B DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUND
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • BU
    BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -49%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
9
Christendom Educational Corporation

Provide a catholic liberal arts education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Education
10
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
11
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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12
The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences

The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Pregnancy Clinics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saint Michael's College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND A CORPORATION SOLE: $591,740 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND A CORPORATION SOLEMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $530,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALST DOMINIC ACADEMY: $219,675 · OtherST DOMINIC ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $156,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC: $90,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC+4 more: $70,000 · OtherSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $1,109,220 · EducationSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGETHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $129,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICAMassachusetts College Of Liberal Arts Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EducationHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $545,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Human…GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $53,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $10,000 · Human ServicesMANASOTA-SOLVE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNAPLES BALLET AND COMPANY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSt Mary's Health System: $20,000 · HealthCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,657,515Education$1,288,220Housing & Shelter$545,000Human Services$68,500Arts & Culture$20,000Health$20,000Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $1,109,220 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $545,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $129,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $53,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts College Of Liberal Arts Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAPLES BALLET INC: $35,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetNAPLES BALLET AND COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSt Mary's Health System: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANASOTA-SOLVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dion Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dion Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
  • Naples Ballet and Company Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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