· Private foundation
James Dyson Foundation North America
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $12,711 |
| VARIOUS LOCAL NON PROFITS - NAME & ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST | $2,524 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PEPROJECT EXPLORATION5× · 2017–2023 · $149k · revenue +213%
Northwestern University2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +41%- CMCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $85k
- EEENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- VSVARIOUS SCHOOL DONATIONS - NAME & ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
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.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
How this is measured
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 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
- Who funds ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREENHILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAKERGIRL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GOETHE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James Dyson Foundation North America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Dyson Foundation North America. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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