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The Dick & Diane May Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Dick & Diane May 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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$115kArts & Culture$87kEducation$48kFood & Nutrition$26kHealth$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kInternational$14kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$6,000
ROOTS & CULTURE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$5,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$3,000
MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION$3,000
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC$2,500
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA$2,500
CATO INSTITUTE$2,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$1,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,000
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE$1,000
UATX$1,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE$1,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND GLOBAL$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 13%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $3k → 8%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $1k → 8%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $2k → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
MS
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$371k · 32 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
15

Total granted

$371k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+41%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +70%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +140%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF GRAND BEACH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
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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2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
39/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATO INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTETHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $24,500 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTEYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Public BenefitYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUN…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $11,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTEDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $8,000 · Public BenefitDisabled American Veterans (DAV)…+1 more: $3,000 · Public BenefitROOTS & CULTURE CONTEMPORARY ARTCENTER: $54,500 · Arts & CultureROOTS & CULTURE CONTE…CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO POLICE MEMORI…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $20,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE …University of Illinois Foundation: $17,000 · EducationUniversity of Illi…University of Chicago: $9,500 · EducationUniversity of Chic…KHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,500 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE ST…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY …+4 more: $4,250 · Education+4 moreOX-BOW: $9,000 · OtherOX-BOWNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $8,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INS…COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $5,202 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR A CON…VILLAGE OF GRAND BEACH: $5,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF GRAND BE…SAVE THE CHILDREN: $2,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $2,500 · OtherOlive Branch Mission: $12,000 · OtherOlive Branch Missio…FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $2,500 · OtherUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $3,500 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Other+12 more: $13,250 · Other+12 moreRush University Medical Center: $18,333 · HealthCenter for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: $7,000 · HealthCore El Centro Incorporated: $3,000 · HealthGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $26,300 · Food & NutritionMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $10,500 · PhilanthropyCHICAGOLAND TOYS FOR TOTS MOTORCYCLE PARADE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $2,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Public Benefit$114,500Arts & Culture$75,500Education$67,750Other$68,952Health$28,333Food & Nutrition$26,300Philanthropy$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOTS & CULTURE CONTEMPORARY ARTCENTER: $54,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $26,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $18,333 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOlive Branch Mission: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOX-BOW: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: $7,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $5,202 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGOLAND TOYS FOR TOTS MOTORCYCLE PARADE: $5,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCore El Centro Incorporated: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUATX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlive and Free: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donors Trust IncThe Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Donors Trust IncVA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Dick & Diane May Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dick & Diane May Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Dick & Diane May 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.

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 53 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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