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The Dick 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.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$289kPhilanthropy$203kEnvironment$193kHealth$152kHuman Services$78kCommunity Improvement$74kArts & Culture$38kPublic Benefit$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$47,000
KNOX COLLEGE$35,000
RUSH-PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$15,000
THE MORTON ARBORETUM$15,000
GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER$12,000
LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS$10,000
HURON MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
LAKE FOREST LIBRARY$5,000
HISTORY CENTER OF LAKE FOREST$5,000
HADLEY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$1,000
NORTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY PARTNERS$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+29%

Still filing today

46%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • KC
    KNOX COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $162k · revenue +10%
  • TM
    THE MORTON ARBORETUM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +103%
  • Lake Forest College
    7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • MH
    MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -3%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • RF
    ROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMP
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
5
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
6
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
7
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
8
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

11
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest College and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $203,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $103,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNANCAUN ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $74,000 · OtherUNANCAUN ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREALAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL — $70,000 · OtherLAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALRUSH-PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · OtherRUSH-PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTERUNANCA — $31,000 · Other+15 more — $94,000 · Other+15 moreKNOX COLLEGE — $162,000 · EducationKNOX COLLEGELake Forest College — $85,000 · EducationLake Forest College+4 more — $20,500 · Education+4 moreTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $103,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORE…LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $80,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN …Gorton Community Center — $77,000 · Human ServicesRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $23,000 · HealthELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$625,000Education$267,500Environment$183,000Human Services$77,000Health$23,000Arts & Culture$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKNOX COLLEGE — $162,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $103,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLake Forest College — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $80,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGorton Community Center — $77,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 KNOX COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM
  • Who funds Lake Forest College
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Gorton Community Center
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
  • Who funds ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY
  • Who funds Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation
  • Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff
  • Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners
  • Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Butler Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Anne Hunting Foundation · Jay Whipple Family Foundation · Keystone Charitable Foundation · Little Orchard Foundation

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 Dick Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dick Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dick Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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