· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $658k
- $250k+2 grants · $815k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The POLG Foundation Inc | $560,000 |
| Eaglebrook School | $255,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy - MDDC Chapter | $135,000 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation | $110,000 |
| Islesboro Islands Trust | $100,000 |
| The Conservation Fund | $100,000 |
| Turtle Key Arts Trust | $62,509 |
| The Brookings Institution | $50,000 |
| Jemicy School | $50,000 |
| Depaul USA | $50,000 |
| Harvard School of Public Health | $30,000 |
| University of Rochester | $30,000 |
| Human Rights Watch | $30,000 |
| John F Kennedy Library Foundation | $30,000 |
| Global Caring Alliance | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Dillon Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +300% · 64% of their budget
- DFDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $345k · revenue +20%
- AFALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PLPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -5%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VIRGINIAone grant, 2022 · $250k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALASKAone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
(see schedule o)
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE POLG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Islands Trust ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HORSESPEAK CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Affordable Property ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIPET RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dillon Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dillon Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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