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The Dalis Foundation

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.

$849k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MHealth$537kArts & Culture$412kHuman Services$391kEnvironment$225kInternational$205kEducation$180kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST$450,000
CONCH REPUBLIC MARINE ARMY$50,000
BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL$45,000
JIQUILISCO BAY ALLIANCE$30,000
STAND UP TO CANCER$30,000
PERKIN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION$27,000
FUSALMO USA CORPORATION$25,000
REACH OUT INTERNATIONAL$22,000
WORLD VISION$11,000
MERCY CHEFS$10,000
CALA$10,000
VANGUARD LANDING$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DANIEL'S GRACE$10,000
ECMC FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL: $45k → 11%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $10k → 19%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $10k → 6%THE DIVE PIRATES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TRINITYS SERVICES: $10k → 7%HEART OF ORPHANS: $10k → 7%MERCY CHEFS: $63k → 9%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 20%BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 11%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $10k → 6%HOSPICE HOUSE: $8k → 7%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 9%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $5k → 17%BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $5k → 9%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $5k → 17%BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 11%THRIVE PENINSULA: $10k → 17%CONNECT WITH A WISH: $8k → 10%NORFOLK CASA: $20k → 19%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%NORFOLK CASA: $5k → 19%NORFOLK CASA: $5k → 19%LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER: $10k → 19%LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC: $10k → 19%LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC: $5k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 58% of The Dalis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 33%.

The Dalis Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 33 repeat orgs$980k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
73

Total granted

$2.7M
$742k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TV
    THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +113%
  • TH
    THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $108k · revenue +52%
  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +784%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +154%
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
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
2
Virginia Environmental Endowment

The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…

Environment
3
Greenwater Foundation

Greenwater Foundation provides leadership of marine conservation and humanitarian efforts undertaken by diverse organizations (governments, universities, NGOs, and private companies) by providing coordination of affordable vessels and…

Science & Tech
4
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
5
Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…

Science & Tech
6
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
9
Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture
10
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
11
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
12
Save the Bay Inc

Save the bay protects, restores, and improves the ecological health of the narragansett bay region, including its watershed and adjacent coastal waters, through an ecosystem-based approach to environmental action; defends the right of the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Full Circle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 127 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,090,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUSTOPERATION BLESSING INC: $120,000 · Other+81 more: $1,241,811 · Other+81 moreBecause International Corp: $125,000 · Human ServicesBecause Int…MERCY CHEFS INC: $88,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS…NORFOLK CASA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORFOLK CAS…LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLOUISE W EG…CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $20,000 · Human Services+11 more: $105,000 · Human Services+11 moreTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIRGINI…THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $107,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HURRAH …THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTAND UP TO CANCER: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGive Something Back Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMercy Medical Angels: $67,500 · HealthVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,000 · HealthDANIEL'S GRACE: $27,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 · InternationalPERKIN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $11,000 · InternationalCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentPlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation: $10,000 · EnvironmentArtula Institute for Art and Environmental Ed: $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Elizabeth River Project: $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,451,811Human Services$393,000Arts & Culture$377,500Philanthropy$165,000Health$155,000International$138,000Environment$110,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBecause International Corp: $125,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $107,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $88,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $67,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCONCH REPUBLIC MARINE ARMY: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORFOLK CASA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $30,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetDANIEL'S GRACE: $27,500 over 3y, 56% of budgetPERKIN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetPlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetREACH OUT INTERNATIONAL: $22,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS OF VIRGINIA BEACH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP: $17,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEART FOR ORPHANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Townebank FoundationSentara HealthPatricia and Douglas …The Blocker FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Goode Family Foundati…The Helen G Gifford F…Beazley Foundation In…Langley for Families …Sterzing Charitable T…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA57.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sterzing Charitable Trust

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 The Dalis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dalis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 127 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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