Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Dortone Esser 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.
- $395k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Dortone Esser Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $395k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $395k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $185k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $110k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $97k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $95k | 9% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Philanthropy$515kInternational$313kAnimals$272kEnvironment$246kHealth$157kHuman Services$140kEducation$90kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $230,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Giving Green Research Group Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $230,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Giving Green Research Group Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Philosophical Society | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dortone Esser Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.
About Dortone Esser Foundation
- How much does Dortone Esser Foundation give?
- Dortone Esser Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $395,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dortone Esser Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), International (17%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Dortone Esser Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($230k), Givedirectly Inc ($140k), Giving Green Research Group Inc ($75k).
- Does Dortone Esser Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dortone Esser 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 Dortone Esser Foundation based?
- Dortone Esser Foundation is based in PA.
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