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The Dealy Foundation Inc

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.

$131k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Dealy Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$131k15%
FY202427$130k4%
FY202327$120k4%
FY202227$119k4%
FY202126$110k0%
FY202030$120k3%
FY201929$119k17%
FY201827$109k4%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$287kCivil Rights$231kEducation$204kArts & Culture$61kEnvironment$50kCrime & Legal$28kHousing & Shelter$28kAnimals$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Dealy Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's College: $89,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $68,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Chesapeake Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLuminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation Inc: $38,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Legal Alliance Inc: $32,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetThe Light House Inc: $31,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $31,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGiffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc: $25,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgetown University: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOld-Growth Forest Network Inc: $22,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetDays End Farm Horse Rescue Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNew Paltz Central School District Foundation for Student Enhancement: $13,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStockade Works Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAnnapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBay Ridge Preparatory School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Studio School: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAssistance League of the Chesapeake Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetImagine an Answer to Kids Brain Cancer: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMaryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Conservancy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Dealy 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.

About The Dealy Foundation Inc

How much does The Dealy Foundation Inc give?
The Dealy Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $131,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Dealy Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Civil Rights (24%), Education (22%).
Who are The Dealy Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($145k), St John's College ($89k), Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc ($68k).
Does The Dealy Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dealy Foundation Inc 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 The Dealy Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc, Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation, The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc.
Where is The Dealy Foundation Inc based?
The Dealy Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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