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The Dillon Henry Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.4MEducation$155kEnvironment$20kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTION KIVU INC$117,846
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - RIVERSIDE$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA$1,000
OTIS COLLEGE$500
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE$500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2k → 15%CAL STATE CHANNEL ISLANDS: $2k → 10%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%UC REGENTS: $7k → 10%RWANDAN EL SHADDAI ORPHANS PROJECT: $31k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - RIVERSIDE: $3k → 11%SANTA MONICA COLLEGE: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS: $2k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSTIY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $2k → 14%WITNESS: $10k → 20%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%CALVIN COLLEGE: $2k → 11%KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $2k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2k → 15%CAL STATE CHANNEL ISLANDS: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE: $4k → 10%UC REGENTS: $6k → 10%RWANDAN EL SHADDAI ORPHANS PROJECT: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - RIVERSIDE: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS: $2k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSTIY: $2k → 11%WITNESS: $5k → 20%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%CALVIN COLLEGE: $2k → 11%KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $2k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAL STATE CHANNEL ISLANDS: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE: $2k → 10%RWANDAN EL SHADDAI ORPHANS PROJECT: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - RIVERSIDE: $3k → 11%ACTION KIVU INC: $303k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $180k → 14%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%ACTION KIVU INC: $177k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $157k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $142k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $138k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $118k → 14%ACTION KIVU INC: $74k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
NV
CA
VA
AZ
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$1.5M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+43%

Still filing today

48%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • AK
    Action Kivu Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +68% · 83% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • MC
    MILLS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -37%
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

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
12
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of La Verne; the most unlike its peers is Action Kivu 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

16 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. 16 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Action Kivu Inc: $1,288,711 · InternationalAction Kivu Inc+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalRWANDAN EL SHADDAI ORPHANS PROJECT: $63,751 · OtherRWANDAN EL S…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKLEY: $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…UC REGENTS: $13,000 · OtherUC REGENTSUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - RIVERSIDE: $11,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…CAL STATE CHANNEL ISLANDS: $8,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $8,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS: $6,000 · OtherClaremont McKenna College: $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES: $6,000 · OtherCOLGATE UNIVERSTIY: $6,000 · Other+10 more: $16,600 · Other+10 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $8,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentNorthwestern University: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
International$1,303,711Other$177,851Education$51,000Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAction Kivu Inc: $1,288,711 over 8y, 83% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWITNESS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Action Kivu Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dillon Henry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dillon Henry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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