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Margaret E Dickins Foundation Inc

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.

$153k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$259kEducation$175kHealth$142kArts & Culture$126kEnvironment$125kInternational$109kHousing & Shelter$75kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN STAGE THEATRE CO$20,000
USF FOUNDATION$15,000
FLUFF ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS$10,000
GREAT EXPLORATIONS$10,000
TAMPA BAY WATCH INC$10,000
FRANKIES FRIENDS$10,000
DOGS INC$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$10,000
EQUITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE$10,000
ACADEMY PREP CTR OF ST PETE$10,000
FOR THE LOVE OF PETS$8,000
GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY$5,000
KIDS AND CANINES$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $16k → 10%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DOGS INC: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%KIDS AND CANINES: $10k → 13%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%KIDS AND CANINES: $5k → 13%ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS: $10k → 12%ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS: $10k → 12%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$1.0M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+36%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • TB
    TAMPA BAY WATCH INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +88%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +1%
  • SP
    ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • IT
    IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SP
    ST PETERSBURG OPERA CO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • CP
    CARING PLUS HOME SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%
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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
2
Spca Inc

Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…

Animals
3
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
4
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
5
Protectors of Companion Animals Inc D/B/a Snip-It of Central Florida

To provide central florida residents humane solutions to the pet overpopulation problem through low cost spay/neuter services and community education.

Youth Development
6
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
7
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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8
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
9
Disability Rights Florida Inc

Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.

Civil Rights
10
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
11
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
12
Street Cat Clinic

Improve the veterinary care of outdoor cats in se florida via spay/neuter

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Frankie's Friends Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDASt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $60,000 · OtherSt Petersburg Free Clinic IncCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $43,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $43,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOR THE LOVE OF PETS: $33,500 · OtherFOR THE LOVE OF PETSGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY: $25,000 · OtherSTETSON COLLEGE OF LAW: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN STAGE THEATRE CO: $20,000 · OtherTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $45,000 · OtherTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRAWarrior Dog Foundation: $30,000 · OtherWarrior Dog FoundationEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Other+15 more: $111,500 · Other+15 moreFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $97,000 · AnimalsFRANKIE'S FR…Fluff Animal Rescue Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsFluff Animal…HUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIE…Pier Aquarium Inc: $8,000 · AnimalsPier Aquariu…TAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentTAMPA BAY W…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesSoutheaste…AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesAIDS HEALT…IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesIN TOUCH W…KIDS AND CANINES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKIDS AND C…Save The Children Federation Inc: $79,000 · InternationalSave The C…DIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationST PETERS…ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG: $20,000 · EducationACADEMY P…University of South Florida Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationUniversit…BROOKWOOD FLORIDA INC: $75,180 · Housing & ShelterCARING PLUS HOME SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$521,000Animals$135,000Environment$125,000Human Services$111,000International$109,000Education$95,000Housing & Shelter$85,180

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 budgetTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $125,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $97,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $79,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKWOOD FLORIDA INC: $75,180 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $43,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWarrior Dog Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFluff Animal Rescue Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS AND CANINES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGREAT EXPLORATIONS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PETERSBURG OPERA CO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARING PLUS HOME SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetShirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPier Aquarium Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetZEBRA YOUTH INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOLEY CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION ANIMAL PROJECT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Debartolo Family Foun…Community Foundation …Pinellas Community Fo…Milkey Family Foundat…Alvah H & Wyline P Ch…Rays Baseball Foundat…Vinik Family Foundati…The Wood Family Found…White Family Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Hough Family Foundati…
Debartolo Family Foundation IncFL27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Milkey Family Foundation Inc · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · The Wood Family Foundation Inc · White Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hough Family Foundation Inc

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 Margaret E Dickins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret E Dickins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Boley Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Brookwood Florida Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Great Explorations Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Margaret E Dickins Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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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