Maryland · Private foundation
Dock Street 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.
- $347k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $144k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Dock Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $300k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $369k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $191k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $197k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $78k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $13k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $325k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $356k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| For All Seasons Inc | $193,416 | 5 | 2% |
| Building African American Minds Inc | $191,920 | 7 | 8% |
| Mid-Shore Early Learning Ctr Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Academy Art Museum Inc | $90,460 | 6 | 1% |
| Shorerivers Inc | $81,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Talbot Mentorsinc | $64,009 | 8 | 9% |
| Third Way Cultural Alliance Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 62% |
| Avalon Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation of Hope Inc | $41,300 | 7 | 7% |
| Modern Warrior Live | $37,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($697k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dock Street Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Qlarant Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland
How this is measured
About Dock Street Foundation
- How much does Dock Street Foundation give?
- Dock Street Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $347,051 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dock Street Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Dock Street Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: For All Seasons Inc ($193k), Building African American Minds Inc ($192k), Mid-Shore Early Learning Ctr Inc ($105k).
- Does Dock Street Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dock Street 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 Dock Street Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Llandaff Family Trust, The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello.
- Where is Dock Street Foundation based?
- Dock Street Foundation is based in MD.
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