· Private foundation
The Dickens Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $194,644 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE OF ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM C HARTMAN JR FUND | $5,500 |
| WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +91%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +99%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC3× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +13%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -83%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
To provide programs, services, technology and leadership to enhance the genetics of the angus breed, broaden its influence within the beef industry and expand the market for superior tasting, high-quality angus beef worldwide.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To support the university of south carolina's athletic department by providing the necessary financial resources for scholarships and other educational services.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
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 24 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 University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dickens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dickens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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