North Carolina · Private foundation
The Dickson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 165
- Grants FY2024
- 166
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $301,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 166 to 199
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Dickson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 164 | $3.7M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 166 | $3.4M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 186 | $3.6M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 199 | $4.0M | 64% |
| FY2020 | 186 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition for Liberty Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Davidson College | $728,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nc State University | $690,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southminster Inc | $415,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc | $409,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency | $404,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $358,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $350,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pfeiffer University | $304,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 224 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dickson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Dickson Foundation Inc
- How much does The Dickson Foundation Inc give?
- The Dickson Foundation Inc reported 165 grants totaling $3,756,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 166 and 199 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Dickson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (18%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Dickson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Coalition for Liberty Inc ($750k), Davidson College ($728k), Nc State University ($690k).
- Does The Dickson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dickson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dickson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Dickson Foundation Inc based?
- The Dickson Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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