New York · Private foundation
The Dillon Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $560,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 60
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Dillon Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k 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 | 51 | $2.0M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $2.1M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Polg Foundation Inc | $1,785,000 | 4 | 64% |
| Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc | $345,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $265,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pequot Library Association | $250,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Connecticut Audubon Society Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Islesboro Islands Trust | $111,000 | 2 | 12% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dillon Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Elizabeth Foundation · Windhover Foundation · Cannupa Foundation · Clayton Baker Trust · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Dillon 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.
About The Dillon Fund
- How much does The Dillon Fund give?
- The Dillon Fund reported 54 grants totaling $2,062,009 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 60 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Dillon Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Health (12%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Dillon Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Polg Foundation Inc ($1.8M), Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ($345k), Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School ($265k).
- Does The Dillon Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dillon 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 Dillon Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Dillon Fund based?
- The Dillon Fund is based in NY.
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