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The Dyson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
317
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$14MEducation$12MHealth$12MArts & Culture$9.0MHousing & Shelter$4.4MRecreation & Sports$4.3MYouth Development$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 317 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k88 grants · $381k
  • $10k–50k136 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k82 grants · $6.7M
  • $250k+11 grants · $6.2M
$16,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$247M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA$1,000,000
VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$750,000
FAMILY SERVICES$750,000
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY$600,000
RUPCO$500,000
HUDSON RIVER HOUSING$500,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$300,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK$250,000
HIGH MOWING SCHOOL$250,000
WINNERS CIRCLE PROJECT$250,000
DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL$200,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$200,000
MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$200,000
FAMILY SERVICES$200,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $60k → 11%New York Council of Nonprofits: $95k → 14%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $60k → 11%NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS: $90k → 14%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $60k → 11%NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS: $90k → 14%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $60k → 11%New York Council of Nonprofits: $90k → 14%NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS: $90k → 14%NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS: $90k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $175k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $125k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $125k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $125k → 14%Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh: $120k → 14%Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh: $115k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $85k → 14%THE STISSING CENTER: $150k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $85k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $85k → 14%DUTCHESS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200k → 9%YMCA OF MIDDLETOWN: $100k → 14%YMCA of Middletown: $90k → 14%HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $120k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $110k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $110k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $110k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $100k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $100k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $100k → 9%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $65k → 9%Grace Smith House: $65k → 9%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $65k → 9%Grace Smith House: $60k → 9%COMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $60k → 9%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $60k → 9%Community Family Development: $60k → 9%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $60k → 9%MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $200k → 9%MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $200k → 9%MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $200k → 9%MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $200k → 9%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM INC: $80k → 9%Child Care Council of Dutchess and Putnam Inc: $80k → 9%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM: $80k → 9%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM INC: $80k → 9%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM INC: $80k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
KS
AR
NC
DC
HI
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Dyson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Dyson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$67M · 225 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

225 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

225
77

Total granted

$67M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +66%
  • MC
    MID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +90% · 81% of their budget
  • IM
    INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +50%
  • CO
    COUNTY OF DUTCHESS
    one grant, 2021 · $290k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $265k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
3
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
5
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
6
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Home Care Association of New York State Inc

To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.

Community Improvement
9
New York Council for the Humanities

The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.

Arts & Culture
10
Congregations Linked in Urban Strategy to Effect Renewal Inc

Cluster community services assists residents in westchester and rockland counties to build a better future for themselves and their communities through services such as: mental health housing, eviction and homelessness prevention,…

Human Services
11
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
12
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Classical Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr15%41%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%2/280
the rest of the field
11%
5,379/51,036

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

263 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 263 of the 346 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
255/263
Grantees still filing
186/263
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,694,500 · OtherFAMILY SERVICES INCVASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $4,280,000 · OtherVASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,546,481 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $1,490,000 · OtherHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC — $1,243,000 · Other+109 more — $21,132,775 · Other+109 moreMarietta College — $1,802,000 · EducationMarietta CollegeHIGH MOWING SCHOOL — $1,750,000 · EducationHIGH MOWING SCHOOLWashington and Lee University — $1,690,000 · EducationWashington and Lee…Cornell University — $750,000 · EducationCornell UniversityWinners Circle Project Inc — $695,000 · EducationWinners Circle Pro…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $615,000 · EducationDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $580,000 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITY — $530,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC — $529,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC — $527,400 · Education+17 more — $2,105,300 · Education+17 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC — $1,228,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRL…DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC — $1,016,500 · Human ServicesDUTCHESS OUTR…NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC — $1,010,325 · Human ServicesNEW YORK COUN…MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $800,000 · Human ServicesMILLBROOK COM…GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC — $621,700 · Human ServicesGRACE SMITH H…COMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $521,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAM…CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC — $360,800 · Human ServicesNUBIAN DIRECTIONS II INC — $335,000 · Human Services+18 more — $2,427,925 · Human Services+18 moreMID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $3,919,500 · Arts & CultureMID-HUDSON…THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD — $957,000 · Arts & CultureTHE POUGHK…BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE — $637,500 · Arts & CultureBARDAVON 1…PRO PUBLICA INC — $275,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $609,200 · Arts & Culture+8 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,200,000 · HealthPLANNED P…FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC — $825,000 · HealthFAMILY OF…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $685,000 · HealthPLANNED P…MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $668,500 · HealthMENTAL HE…PUTNAM FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $511,175 · HealthPUTNAM FA…COLUMBIA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CONSORTIUM INC — $368,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA …MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA & GREENE COUNTIES INC — $266,000 · HealthLEWIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · HealthLONG TERM CARE COMMUNITY COALITION — $235,000 · Health+1 more — $140,000 · HealthRUPCO INC — $1,108,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON INC — $489,500 · Housing & ShelterGOOD CAUSES INC — $535,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $335,300 · Community ImprovementMEDIATION CENTER OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $234,750 · Community ImprovementKITE'S NEST INC — $104,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $79,500 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementNEWBURGH COMMUNITY LAND BANK — $70,300 · Community ImprovementPOUGHKEEPSIE ALLIANCE INC — $55,000 · Community Improvement
Other$36,386,756Education$11,573,700Human Services$8,721,450Arts & Culture$6,398,200Health$6,148,675Housing & Shelter$1,597,500Community Improvement$1,488,850

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,694,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $3,919,500 over 6y, 81% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,546,481 over 6y, 12% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMarietta College — $1,802,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHIGH MOWING SCHOOL — $1,750,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $1,690,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $1,490,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC — $1,243,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC — $1,228,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRUPCO INC — $1,108,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC — $1,016,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetNEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC — $1,010,325 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA — $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD — $957,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY — $855,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC — $825,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $800,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCornell University — $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $729,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWinners Circle Project Inc — $695,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $685,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD — $680,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $668,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY PRENATALPERINATAL COUNCIL INC — $660,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE — $637,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC — $621,700 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $615,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $580,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC — $566,800 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetRURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC — $558,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetGOOD CAUSES INC — $535,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $530,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC — $529,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC — $527,400 over 6y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $521,200 over 6y, 16% of budgetPUTNAM FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $511,175 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc — $496,200 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetSAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON INC — $489,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC — $470,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFEARLESS HUDSON VALLEY INC — $465,300 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $463,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCHILD CARE COUNCIL OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM INC — $400,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY INC — $389,900 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE HUDSON INC — $380,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $378,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $373,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetNEWBURGH ARMORY UNITY CENTER INC — $370,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Marietta College ↗
  • Who funds HIGH MOWING SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds RUPCO INC ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA ↗
  • Who funds THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Winners Circle Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY PRENATALPERINATAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD CAUSES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundations…Ulster Savings Charit…Berkshire Taconic Com…Bank of Greene County…United Way of the Dut…Community Foundation …Novo FoundationField Hall FoundationHenry L Kimelman Fami…The Ascienzo Family F…JM McDonald Foundatio…Hudson Valley Foundat…
Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley IncNY177.4× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · Novo Foundation · Field Hall Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation · The Ascienzo Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Dyson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Dyson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dyson Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 346 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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