· Private foundation
The Dyson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k88 grants · $381k
- $10k–50k136 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k82 grants · $6.7M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HUDSON RIVER HOUSING | $500,000 |
| RUPCO | $500,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $300,000 |
| WINNERS CIRCLE PROJECT | $250,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK | $250,000 |
| HIGH MOWING SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| DUTCHESS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $200,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $200,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 6% of The Dyson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 80%.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +66%
- MCMID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +90% · 81% of their budget
- IMINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +63%
Funded once
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +50%- COCOUNTY OF DUTCHESSone grant, 2021 · $290k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INCone grant, 2019 · $265k · revenue 0%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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 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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
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.
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,…
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.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
How this is measured
264 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. 264 of the 346 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dyson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dyson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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