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The Dealy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST JOHNS COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $6,000 |
| KERATOPLASTY ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCH DISTRICT FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT ENHANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - WILMER EYE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| STOCKADE WORKS | $4,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - FUND FOR JH MEDICINE | $4,000 |
| GIFFORD'S LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $4,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +102%- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +8%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- FLFOOD LINK INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Women's Law Center and the most unlike its peers is New Paltz Central School District Foundation for Student Enhancement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO ↗
- Who funds Washington Studio School ↗
- Who funds NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT ENHANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds STOCKADE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE AN ANSWER TO KIDS BRAIN CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Helena Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · America's Charities · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The US Charitable Gift Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dealy Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc — 3% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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