· Private foundation
Van Dykebilly 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $90,000 |
| A HUMANE WORLD | $90,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS | $35,000 |
| VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY OF ANIMALS | $20,000 |
| ST THOMAS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ZOO NEW ENGLAND | $10,000 |
| C&W RUSTIC HALLOW SHELTER | $6,000 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS | $5,000 |
| NETWORK FOR ANIMALS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Van Dykebilly 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, 37% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $547k · revenue +31%
- PFPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +147%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AFAMANDAS FARM ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2022 · $24k
- VOVOYAGEURS OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- GUGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Animal Welfare
Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.
To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pine River Watershed Alliance. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Network for Animals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Animal Place ↗
- Who funds Companions for Heroes ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED PAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IZZY'S LOVE EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds BLUEBIRDS AND BLOOMS INC ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds A VOICE FOR ALL PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Joyce a Ward Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datlo · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust
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 Van Dykebilly 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.
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.