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Dryer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$26kInternational$23kArts & Culture$21kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$4kHealth$4kPublic Benefit$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF IDF$9,900
AMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ODOM$5,400
RAVINIA$4,542
FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM$4,500
CHABADORG$4,464
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$3,600
HADASSAH - GANDEL REHAB CENTER$3,600
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART$2,700
EMPTY STOCKING FUND KNOXVILLE$1,800
TINY TIM'S FOUNDATION FOR KIDS$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
KNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE$1,800
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT$720
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION$550
CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB$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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY: $1k → 16%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%HADASSAH - GANDEL REHAB CENTER: $4k → 17%CHABADORG: $4k → 20%VIOLINS OF HOPE: $360 → 17%KNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE: $2k → 12%TINY TIM'S FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $2k → 8%VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT: $720 → 7%North Star Clay Target Foundation: $3k → 8%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $550 → 14%FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $5k → 20%HESKA AMUNA: $2k → 12%Elmhurst Art Museum: $2k → 7%RAVINIA: $5k → 8%ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER: $360 → 14%FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $5k → 20%KNOXVILLE HADASSAH: $405 → 12%RAVINIA: $5k → 8%CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB: $500 → 14%KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $360 → 12%EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $2k → 14%KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ODOM: $5k → 14%EMPTY STOCKING FUND KNOXVILLE: $2k → 12%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $4k → 14%HADASSAH: $3k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ODOM: $2k → 14%METROSQUASH CHICAGO: $2k → 14%MetroSquash Chicago: $360 → 14%BHBE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 14%Synagogue BHBE Yom Kippur: $3k → 14%YOU EVANSTON: $2k → 14%Evanston Arts Center: $2k → 14%SparkShop Chicago: $2k → 14%SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY: $500 → 14%Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association: $3k → 14%Grant Park Music Festival: $500 → 14%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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 5 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$45k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-33%
+13%

Still filing today

20%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue -33%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
  • R
    RAVINIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k

Funded once

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

To connect with the people and diverse communities of new jersey through the power of live symphonic music to inspire, entertain, and educate.

Arts & Culture
2
The American Liszt Society

Founded by david kushner, fernando laires, and charles lee, the american liszt society was incorporated in 1964. the purpose of the society is to promote scholarship and general understanding of the full creative and historical…

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3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.

Arts & Culture
5
Northern Kentucky Symphony

To culturally enrich, educate and entertain the residents of northern kentucky and greater cincinnati through unique and thematic performances designed to make symphonic music attractive, accessible and affordable.

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6
The Chicago Philharmonic Society

To excite, engage, and transform diverse audiences with the beauty and power of music.

Arts & Culture
7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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8
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc

See schedule o.the mission of the new york philharmonic encompasses the following key attributes:(1) to maintain and foster an interest in the enjoyment of music and musical affairs; (2) to inculcate an interest in symphonic music among…

Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Symphony Association

The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. As Middle Tennessee continues to grow and transform, the Nashville Symphony will be a financially robust,…

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Symphony

The san francisco symphony exists to inspire and serve audiences and communities throughout the bay area and the world through the power of musical performance.

Arts & Culture
11
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
12
American Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the aso is to renew live orchestra music as a vital force in contemporary american culture. to this end, the aso presents thematic programming, in which musical works are curated around ideas drawn from a variety of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Park Orchestral Association; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Literary Club. 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

17 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. 17 of the 35 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $9,900 · OtherFRIENDS OF MEIR PANIMRAVINIA: $9,542 · OtherRAVINIAAMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ODOM: $7,200 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ODOMCHABADORG: $4,464 · OtherCHABADORGHADASSAH - GANDEL REHAB CENTER: $3,600 · OtherHADASSAH - GANDEL REHAB CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $2,624 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,610 · OtherSynagogue BHBE Yom Kippur: $2,560 · OtherHADASSAH: $2,520 · OtherJDC: $2,520 · Other+9 more: $9,375 · Other+9 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,300 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DE…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,400 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KE…TINY TIMS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $1,800 · InternationalTINY TIMS FOUNDATION FOR…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $3,200 · Arts & CultureChicago Sym…KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $2,700 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE M…ELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $1,800 · Arts & CultureELMHURST AR…EVANSTON ART CENTER: $1,800 · Arts & CultureEVANSTON AR…GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $500 · Arts & CultureSEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $360 · Arts & CultureSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSYRACUSE …KNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC: $1,800 · EducationKNOXVILLE…EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $1,800 · EducationEVANSTON …NORTH STAR CLAY TARGET FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsVETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $720 · Public Benefit
Other$56,915International$22,500Arts & Culture$10,860Education$8,600Recreation & Sports$3,500Public Benefit$720

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR CLAY TARGET FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTINY TIMS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $1,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSTON ART CENTER: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $720 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Literary Club: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $360 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.

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.

Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ibm International FoundationNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dryer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dryer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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