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The Diller Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Diller Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$124kEducation$120kReligion$68kEnvironment$68kArts & Culture$21kMembership Benefit$17kHealth$9kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$735k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENT$38,167
CHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY$20,000
WETLANDS INSTITUTE$15,000
STONE HARBOR MUSEUM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 331$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 22%THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $5k → 13%CHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $26k → 8%MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $7k → 7%SAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC INC: $100k → 10%ACTION FOR ALL USASA NATIONALS SCHOLARSHIP: $3k → 8%ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 22%THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $2k → 13%CHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $20k → 8%MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $3k → 7%CAPE MAY MARLIN & TUNA CLUB: $5k → 10%THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $2k → 13%CHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $10k → 8%ART JUSHNER CAPE MAY MARLIN AND TUNA CLUB: $3k → 10%THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $2k → 13%CHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $10k → 8%VILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENT: $38k → 10%VILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENT: $21k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $13k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%VILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENT: $9k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $6k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%STONE HARBOR MUSEUM: $5k → 10%STONE HARBOR MUSEUM: $5k → 10%STONE HARBOR MUSEUM: $5k → 10%STONE HARBOR MUSEUM: $5k → 10%WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION POST 311: $3k → 10%WILDWOOD CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $5k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION POST 311: $2k → 10%WILDWOOD CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $2k → 10%STONE HARBOR MUSEUM: $1k → 10%HELEN DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $13k → 10%HELEN DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%HELEN DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%HELEN DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%HELEN DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%BRENDAN BOREK HIGH TIDES MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2k → 10%BRENDAN BOREK HIGH TIDES MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2k → 10%BRENDAN BOREK HIGH TIDES MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2k → 10%BURKE PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 59% of The Diller Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 53%.

The Diller Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$319k · 10 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +118% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$319k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
0%

Still filing today

40%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TW
    THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +348%
  • HL
    HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +145%
  • SH
    STONE HARBOR MUSEUM CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SW
    SAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -97%
  • WC
    WILDWOOD CATHOLIC ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • CM
    CAPE MAY MARLIN & TUNA CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENT: $68,227 · OtherVILLA MARIA BY THE SEA RETREAT CENTTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $67,500 · OtherTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTECHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $66,000 · OtherCHALLENGE CHILDREN'S CHARITYHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $53,250 · OtherHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INCAMERICAN LEGION POST 331: $17,143 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 331+7 more: $36,947 · Other+7 moreSAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC INC: $100,000 · EducationSAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC IN…STONE HARBOR MUSEUM CORPORATION: $21,000 · Arts & CultureED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCAPE MAY MARLIN & TUNA CLUB INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$309,067Education$100,000Arts & Culture$21,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $67,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $53,250 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetSTONE HARBOR MUSEUM CORPORATION: $21,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBRENDAN BOREK HIGH TIDES MEMORIAL FUND INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE MAY MARLIN & TUNA CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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 SAVE WILDWOOD CATHOLIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds STONE HARBOR MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BRENDAN BOREK HIGH TIDES MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPE MAY MARLIN & TUNA CLUB INC ↗

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Diller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to The Diller Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Diller Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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