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Dry Family Charitable 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.

$156k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 41
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M
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 Dry Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$156k11%
FY202428$161k14%
FY202335$131k11%
FY202233$185k18%
FY202141$135k68%
FY202016$134kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$561kArts & Culture$134kHealth$102kRecreation & Sports$40kEnvironment$31kFood & Nutrition$12kInternational$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dry Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt John's College: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMiles for Migraine: $41,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSanta Fe Preparatory School: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hudson Review Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSky Island Alliance: $29,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Rio Grande School: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Review of Books Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCurtis Institute of Music: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuentes de Salud: $15,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philadelphia School: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Rittenhouse Square: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Patagonia Library Inc: $13,250 over 6y, 10% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchard Project Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKathryn Posin Dance Foundation: $10,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetReading Quest: $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Center for Urban Life: $7,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLos Angeles Review of Books: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of the Lawrenceville School: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHeadache Alliance Inc: $2,588 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWesleyan University: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairmount Park Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReunity Resources: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Wildlife Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSettlement Music School of Philadelphia: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreene Towne School Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Book a Day: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouthbuild DC Public Charter School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 32.

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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.

The Cigna Group FoundationPA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cigna Group Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Dry Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Dry Family Charitable Foundation give?
Dry Family Charitable Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $156,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Dry Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (11%).
Who are Dry Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St John's College ($220k), Thomas Jefferson University ($65k), Miles for Migraine ($42k).
Does Dry Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dry Family Charitable 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 Dry Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cigna Group Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
Where is Dry Family Charitable Foundation based?
Dry Family Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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