Maryland · Private foundation
Joel Dean 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.
- $539k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Joel Dean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 74 | $493k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $417k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $403k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $351k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $278k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $293k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera San Jose Incorporated | $611,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Oberlin College | $381,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $157,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Berea College | $103,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Theatreworks Silicon Valley | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Jose Museum of Art Association | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harvey Mudd College | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Student Conservation Association Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($421k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joel Dean 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: Ibm International Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Kent and Rita Norton Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joel Dean Foundation
- How much does Joel Dean Foundation give?
- Joel Dean Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $539,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joel Dean Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Joel Dean Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Opera San Jose Incorporated ($611k), Oberlin College ($382k), Johns Hopkins University ($157k).
- Does Joel Dean Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joel Dean 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 Joel Dean Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, The Applied Materials Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Joel Dean Foundation based?
- Joel Dean Foundation is based in MD.
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