· Private foundation
Frances R Dewing Foundation 7600-Xxxxxx15480
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 $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG | $25,000 |
| MUSIC WORKSHOP | $20,000 |
| CLIMATE GENERATION | $16,000 |
| NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE | $15,000 |
| PRINCETON AREA LIBRARY SUPPORTERS | $15,000 |
| ARKANSAS LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| GIRAFFE LAUGH | $15,000 |
| PRISM DESIGN LAB | $10,000 |
| RAISING HANDS LITERACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| POSITIVE ENERGY ARTS | $8,200 |
| LENOIR CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,938 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTRY VILLIAGE & MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HUEY'S HIDEAWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE | $5,000 |
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, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 18 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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
- NNNGAGE NEW MEXICO2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +4%
- PBPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +37%
- CMChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -1%
- SMStamford Museum & Nature Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +56%
- FTFT THOMAS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #7one grant, 2023 · $25k
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 mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…
The purpose of the children's discovery museum is to provide an array of exhibits and activities that promote developmental skills including social, cognitive, problem solving and peer interaction. our environment creates an interactive…
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Bronx children's museum's mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning for children and families regardless of background. we provide a gateway for more than 100,000 children annually to arts, culture, and…
At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.
The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.
To inspire children to care about and change the world. National Children's Museum (NCM) is a next generation institution that sparks curiosity and ignites creativity for children under 12 by fostering critical competencies in S.T.E.A.M.…
The childrens museum groups mission is to inspire lifelong learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning opportunities covering steam, health nature and the environment. with a focus on at need communities…
Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.
In partnership with families, we as an educational community, foster learning in a nurturing, supportive, child-centered environment immersed in nature. we teach, respect and celebrate diversity, individuality, and the whole child.
Activate the power of play to enrich the lives of children and their families, build stronger communities, and create a better world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pitchblack Immersive Experiences Inc. 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 25 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 118 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 NGAGE NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds STORY PRESERVATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds SALTWATER CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds American International College ↗
- Who funds Music Workshop ↗
- Who funds EARTHROOTS FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHKILLSPARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE LAUGH INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds WONDERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Learning Through the Arts ↗
- Who funds Avalon Village Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN 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: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Association of Children's Museums Inc · Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Nora Roberts Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Chubb Charitable 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 Frances R Dewing Foundation 7600-Xxxxxx15480 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- North Suffolk Community Services Inc — 63% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc — 13% of income from government
- Forest Park Zoological Society Inc — 12% of income from government
- Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Enchanted Circle Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- American International College — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food Roots — 0% 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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