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Dlmc 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$399kArts & Culture$147kHealth$138kHousing & Shelter$133kHuman Services$126kYouth Development$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kEnvironment$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER PORTLAND$10,000
FOLD OF HONOR MINNESOTA CHAPTER$9,000
BLOOM EARLY LEARNING$9,000
PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CEENTER$9,000
TAHOE FUND$7,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$7,500
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL CENTER$7,000
GARGIULO EDUCATION CENTER$6,500
FISHER HOUSE$6,000
MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK$5,500
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - TWIN CITIES$5,000
MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGH$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $3k → 7%WABAN PROJECTS: $8k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%UNITED HEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FDN: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%ST JOHNS PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHNS PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHNS PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $2k → 12%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $10k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $10k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $9k → 11%RIDING TO THE TOP: $2k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MN
IL
MI
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 57 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
45

Total granted

$1.2M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +46%
  • TF
    TAHOE FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +133%
  • MT
    MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HURRICANE RECOVER
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
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
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation; the most unlike its peers is North Naples Education Center Inc. 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
41/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC BERKELEY: $65,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYBLOOM EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $48,000 · OtherBLOOM EARLY LEARNING CENTERHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF: $48,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $44,000 · OtherPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $42,000 · OtherFISCHER HOUSE: $32,000 · OtherVIRGINIA-PIPER CANCER INSTITUTE: $32,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - TWIN CITIES: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherBRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL CENTER: $29,500 · Other+61 more: $430,810 · Other+61 moreMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,000 · EducationMONTANA TECH…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINI…NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $17,000 · EducationNORTH NAPLES…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HON…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $15,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVE…EDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $6,000 · Education+4 more: $15,000 · Education+4 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,500 · Human ServicesAmerican N…BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $29,000 · Human ServicesBLOOM EARL…SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $11,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN…Waypoint Maine Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesWaypoint M…SEA CHANGE YOGA: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL …PORTLAND OVATIONS: $27,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND O…Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $23,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Publ…ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE: $12,500 · Arts & CultureONE LONGFE…GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $9,500 · Arts & CultureGREAT RIVE…Minnesota Children's Museum: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota …OPERA NAPLES INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $39,600 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,000 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTAHOE FUND: $52,000 · EnvironmentPORTLAND TRAILS: $2,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $24,000 · International
Other$861,310Education$152,000Human Services$130,000Arts & Culture$127,500Health$59,600Environment$54,000International$24,000

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $52,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $44,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $39,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $29,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS: $27,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $17,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE: $12,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $9,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaypoint Maine Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA NAPLES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEA CHANGE YOGA: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $2,510 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRobotics Institute of Maine: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPORTLAND TRAILS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOM EARLY LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND OVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗

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.

Saco & Biddeford Savi…Maine Community Found…Xcel Energy FoundationGranite Partners Foun…Sam L Cohen FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…The Hawkins Family Fo…Phineas W Sprague Mem…Vincent B and Barbara…The Widgeon Point Cha…Horizon Foundation IncOnion Foundation
Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable FoundationME21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Hawkins Family Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Onion 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 Dlmc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dlmc 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • North Naples Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to Dlmc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dlmc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 108 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home