· Private foundation
The Dillard Foundation Co Patrick Dillard
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DILLARD UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| THE SANTA FE OPERA | $150,000 |
| COOPER RIIS | $100,000 |
| SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $11,100 |
| OPERA OMAHA | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN MEDICAL PROJECT | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DUDILLARD UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +30%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA6× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +53%
COOPERRIIS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM MARYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TITSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -11%
- MCMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
The mission of the academy of music theatre is to enrich greater northampton's quality of life by offering first class performing arts and film presentations in an historic theater of national significance. the academy of music theatre…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Encourage art appreciation
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Medical Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds COOPERRIIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Medical Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds Les Dames D'Aspen LTD ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Clara Foundation Inc · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Dillard Foundation Co Patrick Dillard 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.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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