· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| MILES FOR MIGRANE | $16,500 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO | $7,500 |
| BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO | $7,500 |
| SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| READING ALLOWED | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE | $5,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| THE HUDSON REVIEW | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| NOLS | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of your 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.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +40%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +15%
- MFMILES FOR MIGRAINE3× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- PFPHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION - PHL COVIDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CICAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA - ST JOHNS COLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School and the most unlike its peers is Kathryn Posin Dance Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 63 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 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILES FOR MIGRAINE ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PUENTES DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PATAGONIA LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Kathryn Posin Dance Foundation ↗
- Who funds READING QUEST ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CENTER FOR URBAN LIFE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds READING ALLOWED ↗
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: 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
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 Dry Family Charitable 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.
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.