Maryland · Private foundation
Horace Dawson 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.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $883k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Horace Dawson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $109k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $88k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $100k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $102k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $88k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simpson College | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Maryville College | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes | $50,288 | 5 | 0% |
| Chautauqua Institution | $50,144 | 6 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Church USA | $41,400 | 4 | n/a |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $23,410 | 6 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $16,790 | 4 | 0% |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $14,150 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $13,234 | 6 | 0% |
| Bay Area Crisis Nursery | $10,635 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Horace Dawson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · New Venture Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Horace Dawson Foundation
- How much does Horace Dawson Foundation give?
- Horace Dawson Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $108,577 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Horace Dawson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (11%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Horace Dawson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Simpson College ($60k), Maryville College ($60k), Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes ($50k).
- Does Horace Dawson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Horace Dawson 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 Horace Dawson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Horace Dawson Foundation based?
- Horace Dawson Foundation is based in MD.
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