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The Diken Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182023.

Health$46kHuman Services$39kReligion$34kEducation$12kPublic Benefit$3kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$108k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELLA'S ANGELS$9,200
NOTRE DAME OF MD UNIVERSITY$5,500
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$4,000
ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,500
ADOPT-A-FAMILY$1,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
ST JUDE'S HOSPITAL$850
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 (FY19–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $9k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $9k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%BELLA'S ANGELS: $5k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $4k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $4k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
PA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$140k · 12 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$140k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+49%

Still filing today

58%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • BA
    BELLA'S ANGELS INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $31k · revenue +422%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • TA
    TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THOMAS GOSPEL CHOIR
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +67%
  • TM
    THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -37%

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
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
2
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

4
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
5
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

6
Shock Trauma Associates Pa

Under the medical sevice plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical instruction…

Health
7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

11
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc

As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.

Education
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $21,350 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $10,500 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTAPS — $8,000 · OtherTAPSST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $2,000 · OtherST THOMAS GOSPEL CHOIR — $2,000 · Other+7 more — $4,023 · Other+7 moreBELLA'S ANGELS INC — $31,450 · Human ServicesBELLA'S ANGELS INC+1 more — $750 · Human ServicesJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Cen…THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION — $1,200 · PhilanthropyTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $18,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSIST…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $850 · HealthNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationNOTRE DAM…METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 · EducationMETHODIST…Adopt a Family Inc — $7,600 · Food & NutritionJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,300 · Public BenefitNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$47,873Human Services$32,200Philanthropy$26,200Health$18,850Education$12,000Food & Nutrition$7,600Public Benefit$3,300Arts & Culture$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBELLA'S ANGELS INC — $31,450 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt a Family Inc — $7,600 over 6y, 23% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 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 BELLA'S ANGELS INC
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
  • Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Adopt a Family Inc
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Diken 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc9% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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