Indiana · Private foundation
Dollens Family 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.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Dollens Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $145k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Dollens Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 10 | $62k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $79k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $57k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $167k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $75k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $97k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $66,667 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,907 | 3 | 0% |
| Trident Academy Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Bridge Academy | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $7,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Supply Co | $5,010 | 1 | 0% |
| Seattle Country Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $66,667 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,907 | 3 | 0% |
| Trident Academy Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Bridge Academy | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $7,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Supply Co | $5,010 | 1 | 0% |
| Seattle Country Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Shine Foster Family Resources Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charleston Day Schoolinc | $1,937 | 1 | 0% |
| Highlands School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seattle United Fc | $511 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dollens Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Dollens Family Foundation
- How much does Dollens Family Foundation give?
- Dollens Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $137,427 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dollens Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (11%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Dollens Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Focusing Philanthropy Inc ($67k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($26k), Trident Academy Inc ($20k).
- Does Dollens Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dollens Family 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 Dollens Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dollens Family Foundation based?
- Dollens Family Foundation is based in IN.
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