How much does The Dickey Fund give?

The Dickey Fund reported 15 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Dickey Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Recreation & Sports (24%), Education (14%).

Who are The Dickey Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pcc Farmland Trust ($227k), Seattle Public Library Foundation ($185k), The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871) ($102k).

Does The Dickey Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Dickey Fund 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 Dickey Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Goodfellow Fund, The Bullitt Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is The Dickey Fund based?

The Dickey Fund is based in WA.

The Dickey Fund

The Dickey Fund at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Dickey Fund

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.

$123k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

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 2025.

Environment$473kRecreation & Sports$317kEducation$185kCivil Rights$177kHuman Services$102kArts & Culture$49kFood & Nutrition$15kAnimals$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $32k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$129k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$51,000
ACLU	$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION	$15,000
SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART	$10,000
SHORT MT SANCTUARY	$7,500
WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL	$6,000
NOPAL & MESQUITE SACRED PATHWAYS	$5,000
KUOW	$3,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS	$3,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$2,000
VASHON MAURY FOOD BANK	$1,500
KBCS - PUBLIC RADIO	$1,500
CASCADE PBS	$1,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS	$1,000
ARTE NOIR	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+26%

Still filing today

63%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationInternationalOther

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

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SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +326%
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THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)
3× · 2019–2021 · $102k · revenue +31%
TA
The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School
8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +53%

Funded once

NH
NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k
VP
VOLUNTEER PARK TRUST
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment

Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Washington Conservation Action Education Fund

To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.

Environment

Environment Now

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Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$712,173Environment$279,666Education$185,000Human Services$101,500Arts & Culture$36,200Crime & Legal$17,500International$10,500Animals$3,000

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.

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.

Goodfellow FundWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Goodfellow Fund · The Bullitt Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dickey Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dickey Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Dickey Fund 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home