How much does The Francis J Dixon Foundation give?

The Francis J Dixon Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,209,161 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Francis J Dixon Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Philanthropy (17%), Public Benefit (6%).

Who are The Francis J Dixon Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Volunteers in Medicine ($1.7M), Union Community Care ($300k), United Way of Lebanon County Inc ($274k).

Does The Francis J Dixon Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Francis J Dixon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Francis J Dixon Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Lebanon County Inc, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, The Bishop Foundation.

Where is The Francis J Dixon Foundation based?

The Francis J Dixon Foundation is based in PA.

The Francis J Dixon Foundation

The Francis J Dixon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Francis J Dixon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$308k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.2MPhilanthropy$771kPublic Benefit$300kEducation$282kHuman Services$189kFood & Nutrition$178kPublic Safety & Disaster$153kEmployment$120kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $115k
$10k–50k23 grants · $444k
$50k–250k4 grants · $342k
$250k+1 grant · $308k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE	$308,250
UNION COMMUNITY CARE	$100,000
UNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY	$91,000
Individual grant recipient	$75,500
WEPA EMPOWERMENT CENTER	$75,000
SARCC	$38,300
POWER PACKS PROJECT	$34,911
LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC	$30,000
THE CARING CUPBOARD	$30,000
LEBANON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM	$30,000
LEBANON AREA FAIR	$28,000
SALVATION ARMY LEBANON	$27,000
LEBANON SCHOOL DIST	$27,000
WASHINGTON BAND OF ANVILLE	$24,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION OF LEBANON COUNTY	$21,250

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 28% of The Francis J Dixon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 47%.

The Francis J Dixon Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 48% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.4M · 40 repeat orgs$857k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$662k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+49%

Still filing today

65%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

VI
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +20% · 44% of their budget
UC
UNION COMMUNITY CARE
3× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +106%
WE
WEPA EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $195k · revenue +458% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

CO
CITY OF LEBANON
one grant, 2020 · $300k
TS
THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE OF TECHNOLGY
one grant, 2023 · $100k
LF
LEBANON FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +116%

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.

Lebanon Historical Society

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Lebanon Community Library

Operation of local public library

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Lebanon Valley Council On the Arts

Promote all art disciplines including exhibitions, dance productions, concerts, educational seminars and theatre. the organization has established a center for the arts in lebanon pennsylvania.

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The Lebanon Valley Conservancy Inc

Promote conservation

Environment

Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine Clinic

Our mission is to serve the health and wellness needs of the uninsured who live in lebanon county, pa.

Health

Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce

We are lebanon valley's leading business organization providing education, networking, services, and advocacy to support and develop our members and business community.

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Lebanon Valley Economic Development Corporation

Continuing study of economic development, site identification and development, and industrial solicitation in a continuing effort to revitalize the local business sector.

Community Improvement

Lebanon Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster

Marian L Spitler Lebanon High School Foundation

Philanthropy

Lebanon Outing Club Inc

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Historical Society of Mount Lebanon

The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.

Arts & Culture

Lebanon Public Libraries Foundation

To provide support to the two public libraries serving the town of lebanon, nh.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon County Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Cadence Music & Arts Programs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 86 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)

43/43

Grantees still filing

28/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$2,155,458Other$2,019,829Human Services$640,795Philanthropy$621,500Arts & Culture$218,500Public Safety & Disaster$101,000Education$79,075

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.

United Way of Lebanon County IncPA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Lebanon County Inc · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · The Bishop Foundation · Laurie & Dave Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Wellspan Health

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report 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

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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