· Private foundation
The Dear 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THRIVE DC | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ADKINS ARBORETUM | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| PROJECT GIVEBACK COMMUNITY SERVICE ORG | $5,000 |
| FATHER MCKENNA CENTER | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS WHARF ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…
To conserve, enhance, and encourage the wise use of natural resources. ttcd's core values are to meet the needs of our stakeholders and to foster cooperative relationships.
Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…
Community gardening, land conservation and environmental education are the primary activities. the community gardening program assists in development and maintenance of gardens with materials and neighborhood outreach. the land program…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
Healthy chesapeake is committed to building a culture of wellness that supports, sustains and advocates for a healthier chesapeake. to achieve this, healthy chesapeake recognizes that health and well-being are interconnected with social,…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE DC ↗
- Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ADKINS ARBORETUM LTD ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GIVEBACK COMMUNITY SERVICE ORG ↗
- Who funds Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dear Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dear Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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