How much does The Dinan Family Foundation give?

The Dinan Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $6,146,604 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Dinan Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (31%), Arts & Culture (22%).

Who are The Dinan Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ($5.3M), The Rockefeller University ($4.4M), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc ($4.3M).

Does The Dinan Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Dinan Family Foundation 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 Dinan Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, David B Peterson Foundation, Lanbro Foundation.

Where is The Dinan Family Foundation based?

The Dinan Family Foundation is based in FL.

The Dinan Family Foundation

The Dinan Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dinan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$11MEducation$9.3MArts & Culture$6.8MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$744kPublic Benefit$320kCivil Rights$316kEnvironment$256kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $33k
$10k–50k10 grants · $185k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
$250k+5 grants · $4.7M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$61M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Rockefeller University	$2,050,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts	$1,349,599
The Trustees of The University of Penn	$588,954
Smith College	$500,000
Museum of the City of New York	$250,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital	$200,000
Froedtert Hospital Foundation	$200,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC	$194,200
USA Wrestling	$187,625
President and Fellows of Harvard College	$100,000
101 East 69th Street Conservancy	$83,333
North Salem Open Land Foundation	$75,000
Stone Ridge Foundation	$50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art	$50,000
Serpentine Americas Foundation	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$26M · 60 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$26M

$898k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+21%

Still filing today

75%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

TH
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +14%
LC
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +13%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +78%

Funded once

U
USOPF
one grant, 2020 · $250k
WW
World Wildlife Foundation
one grant, 2020 · $105k
TO
THE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Manhattanville University

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

Education

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Apie 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

82 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. 82 of the 126 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

82/82

Grantees still filing

62/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$10,558,880Education$10,404,018Arts & Culture$6,552,753Other$2,106,371Recreation & Sports$384,050Civil Rights$305,000Environment$229,500

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.

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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · David B Peterson Foundation · Lanbro Foundation · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Ehrenkranz Family Foundation · Rattner Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Dinan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dinan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home