· Private foundation
Douglas & Marianne Dickerson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $118,500 |
| ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $12,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $7,000 |
| ST MARY HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN | $6,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM | $5,000 |
| FOODBANK OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $5,000 |
| 4CS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NOURISH NC | $4,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AAAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +234%
- ACACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +95%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HHHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -3%
- VLVANGUARD LANDING INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -23%
- YWYOUTH WITH A MISSIONSone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds Catalyst Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALL SEATED IN A BARN ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Compton Family Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Alan & Esther Fleder Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Douglas & Marianne Dickerson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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