California · Private foundation
Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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 | 16 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $2.7M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $4.0M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.2M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.7M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $1.5M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $1.9M | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kraemer Endowment Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 9 | 14% |
| Building 178 Performing Arts Center | $500,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Cygnet Theatre Company | $500,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Autism Tree Project Inc | $390,000 | 6 | 30% |
| Curebound | $375,000 | 4 | 2% |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| San Diego Education Fund | $257,500 | 8 | 26% |
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| A Bridge for Kids | $135,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation with peer funders
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About Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation
- How much does Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation give?
- Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,758,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Health (24%), Education (14%).
- Who are Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zoological Society of San Diego ($750k), Kraemer Endowment Foundation Inc ($600k), Building 178 Performing Arts Center ($500k).
- Does Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson 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 Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation based?
- Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundation is based in CA.
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