Georgia · Private foundation
The Dees Family 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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $306k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Dees Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 2 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $18k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $21k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $200 | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $8k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $6k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $132k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wofford College | $201,278 | 2 | 0% |
| City Springs Theatre | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kappa Alpha Order Educational Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Impact100 Atlanta Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Sandy Springs Society Inc | $1,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Art Sandy Springs Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Isakson Initiative Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| American Diabetes Association | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dees Family Foundation
- How much does The Dees Family Foundation give?
- The Dees Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dees Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Religion (16%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are The Dees Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wofford College ($201k), City Springs Theatre ($5k), Breakthrough T1d ($5k).
- Does The Dees Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dees Family 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 The Dees Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Dees Family Foundation based?
- The Dees Family Foundation is based in GA.
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