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The Harriet F Dickenson Foundation Xxxxx4008

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEnvironment$880kEducation$221kHealth$214kPhilanthropy$59kYouth Development$29kReligion$22kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,425
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCC FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$7,425
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,425
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SILVER OAK JUMPER TOURNAMENT: $5k → 8%SMITH COLLEGE: $100k → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUN: $50k → 16%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $100k → 9%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50k → 17%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 20%BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORP: $100k → 20%New York Botanical Garden: $225k → 28%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $10k → 14%National Parkinson: $5k → 15%GUNNERY INCORPORATED: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF: $100k → 12%Ohio Wesleyan University: $15k → 5%NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $100k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $10k → 12%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $10k → 9%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $108k → 17%UCC FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $7k → 20%BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORP: $10k → 20%New York Botanical Garden: $150k → 28%Washington Montessori Association: $35k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF: $4k → 12%Ohio Wesleyan University: $5k → 5%CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $100k → 9%Preservation League of: $100k → 14%Washington Montessori Association: $13k → 9%Timanous Foundation: $25k → 12%CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $10k → 9%New York City Ballet: $1.2M → 17%Little Guild of St Francis for: $6k → 9%New York City Ballet: $1.0M → 17%Little Guild of St Francis for: $6k → 9%New York City Ballet: $25k → 17%THE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 9%Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $50k → 17%CORNWALL CONSERVATION TRUST: $4k → 9%564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%Cornwall Child Center Inc: $4k → 9%Fresh Air Fund: $3k → 17%Community Foundation of: $5k → 9%United Church of Christ in Cornwall: $10k → 9%Cornwall Library: $8k → 9%Cornwall Library: $6k → 9%United Church of Christ in Cornwall: $5k → 9%Town Of Cornwall Food and Fuel Fund CT: $5k → 9%Town Of Cornwall Food and Fuel Fund CT: $3k → 9%CORWALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 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

ME
VT
WA
MT
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
VA
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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 25 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$3.4M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+30%

Still filing today

68%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.3M · revenue +21%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $375k · revenue +40%
  • SH
    Scenic Hudson Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $110k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $108k · revenue +177%
  • PL
    Preservation League of
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +37%

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
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
2
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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3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
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
5
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
8
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
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Valley Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Land Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Early Childhood Education C…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Classical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 SchoolsProfessional Ballet Compani…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%53%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr13%73%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,718

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 55 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,250,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC+6 more — $79,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $375,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GA…Scenic Hudson Inc — $110,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson IncCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECO…BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $110,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARD…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEF…+2 more — $3,000 · EnvironmentSMITH COLLEGE — $110,000 · OtherSMITH COLLEGEPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF — $104,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTH…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONS…Preservation League of — $100,000 · OtherPreservation Le…+23 more — $125,925 · Other+23 morePARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $108,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC — $48,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $7,425 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $4,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $50,000 · Community ImprovementSustainable Valley Group Inc — $2,500 · Community ImprovementTimanous Foundation — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room — $1,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,329,500Environment$758,000Other$539,925Health$110,000Education$96,425Community Improvement$52,500Youth Development$28,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,250,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $108,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC — $48,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTimanous Foundation — $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS — $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $7,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCornwall Conservation Trust Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNWALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER OAK JUMPER TOURNAMENT LLC — $4,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCORNWALL CHILD CENTER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Telling Room — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNWALL HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Joseph and Barbara El…Sidney & Judith Krane…The Geisser Family Fo…Northwest Connecticut…Mutual of America Fou…Maine Community Found…Ibm International Fou…Chubb Charitable Foun…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Joseph and Barbara Ellis FoundationNJ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation · Sidney & Judith Kranes Charitable Trust · The Geisser Family Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Harriet F Dickenson Foundation Xxxxx4008 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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

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.

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 55 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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