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Dry Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$20,000
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE$20,000
MILES FOR MIGRANE$16,500
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$15,000
SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
HARVARD COLLEGE FUND$10,000
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE$7,500
BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO$7,500
BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO$7,500
THE HUDSON REVIEW$5,000
THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI$5,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
READING ALLOWED$5,000
FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE$5,000
NOLS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $8k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE PATAGONIA LIBRARY: $5k → 19%HARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 8%THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL - 50TH ANNI: $10k → 22%THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $5k → 14%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $15k → 17%THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI: $5k → 17%MILES FOR MIGRANE: $17k → 10%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE EVA BRANN SEMINAR: $5k → 6%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $8k → 15%Puentes de Salud: $6k → 22%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $8k → 17%THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI: $5k → 17%MILES FOR MIGRANE: $15k → 10%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $8k → 15%Puentes de Salud: $5k → 22%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $8k → 17%THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI: $5k → 17%MILES FOR MIGRANE: $10k → 10%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $6k → 15%Puentes de Salud: $5k → 22%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $6k → 17%THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATI: $5k → 17%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $5k → 17%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%FREE LIBRARY - CULINARY LITERACY CE: $37k → 22%THE HUDSON REVIEW: $5k → 17%RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $20k → 22%SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF FITLER SQUARE PARK: $10k → 22%RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $13k → 22%PENN MEDICAL - CLINICAL TEAM FUND: $10k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$807k · 40 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
18

Total granted

$807k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+57%

Still filing today

65%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +40%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +15%
  • MF
    MILES FOR MIGRAINE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PF
    PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION - PHL COVID
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA - ST JOHNS COL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Dickinson College

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

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
6
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
11
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $220,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGETHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $31,000 · EducationSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOLPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $13,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $13,000 · Education+9 more: $30,500 · Education+9 moreFREE LIBRARY - CULINARY LITERACY CE: $54,500 · OtherFREE LIBRARY - CULINARY LITERACY CEBRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FO: $41,000 · OtherBRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOTHE SKY CENTER: $23,500 · OtherTHE SKY CENTERTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOLPHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION - PHL COVID: $20,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION - PHL COVIDJEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF FITLER SQUARE PARK: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FITLER SQUARE PARKTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PATAGONIA LIBRARY INC: $13,250 · Other+23 more: $94,500 · Other+23 moreTHE HUDSON REVIEW INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HUDSO…CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS IN…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELP…Kathryn Posin Dance Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKathryn P…American Museum of Natural History: $5,160 · Arts & CultureAmerican …+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $29,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $15,000 · EnvironmentPHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,500 · Environment+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentMILES FOR MIGRAINE: $41,500 · HealthPUENTES DE SALUD: $15,500 · HealthHeadache Alliance Inc: $2,588 · HealthTRINITY CENTER FOR URBAN LIFE: $7,000 · Community Improvement
Education$372,500Other$336,750Arts & Culture$80,660Environment$61,000Health$59,588Community Improvement$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $13,000 over 1y, 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Found…Santa Fe Community Fo…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dry Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dry Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home