Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Scott and Donna Dysert 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.
- $265k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 35 | $265k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $71k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $31k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $31k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $5k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove City College | $117,560 | 6 | 0% |
| The Clear Fund | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Pittsburgh | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $9,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $9,250 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bay Park Conservancy Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Al's Bike Drive Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Inclusion Revolution Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Scott and Donna Dysert 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation
- How much does Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation give?
- Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $264,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), International (21%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grove City College ($118k), The Clear Fund ($55k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($30k).
- Does Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Scott and Donna Dysert 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 Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc, Seidman Family Foundation.
- Where is Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation based?
- Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation is based in PA.
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