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.

Where is Dock Street Foundation based?

Dock Street Foundation is based in MD.

Dock Street Foundation

Dock Street Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$440kHealth$394kArts & Culture$341kHuman Services$322kPhilanthropy$236kEnvironment$135kYouth Development$102kHousing & Shelter$102kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $102k
$10k–50k8 grants · $185k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$144k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TALBOT THRIVE CO COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE	$60,000
MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$47,500
BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS	$42,600
MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CENTER	$25,000
THE LAKE CLINIC USA	$20,000
ACADEMY ART MUSEUM	$15,000
TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY	$15,000
FOR ALL SEASONS	$10,000
MPT FOUNDATION	$10,000
CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER	$7,500
SHORERIVERS	$5,000
EASTON HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
REGINALD F LEWIS MUSEUM	$5,000
FOUNDATION OF HOPE	$5,000
EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 81 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+80%

Still filing today

54%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

FA
FOR ALL SEASONS INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +279%
BA
BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue ×15
ME
MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +9%

Funded once

TW
THIRD WAY CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2024 · $50k · 62% of their budget
W
WHCP
one grant, 2023 · $25k
JA
JOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%

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.

Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture

Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science

Chesapeake Charities Inc

The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o

Philanthropy

Chesapeake Bay Trust

Chesapeake bay trust is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. (see schedule o for continuation)…

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Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc

The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o

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Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal

Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment

Eastern Shore Long Term Recovery Committee

Long term recovery response in the counties of maryland's eastern shore

Public Safety & Disaster

Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc

Our mission is to create an environment of discovery about oneself, the peoples, the technologies and the ecologies of the Chesapeake Bay area for all children and the child in us all.

Arts & Culture

Sustainable Chesapeake

Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.

Public Benefit

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…

Arts & Culture

The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. 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

69 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. 69 of the 135 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/69

Grantees still filing

52/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,152,260Education$400,701Arts & Culture$219,660Philanthropy$209,462Environment$138,500Housing & Shelter$93,190Youth Development$71,489

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.

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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD94.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dock Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dock Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home