How much does Van Dykebilly Foundation give?

Van Dykebilly Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Van Dykebilly Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (51%), Education (27%), Environment (11%).

Who are Van Dykebilly Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane World for Animals Inc ($547k), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc ($248k), Animal Humane Society ($180k).

Does Van Dykebilly Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Van Dykebilly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Van Dykebilly Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joyce a Ward Foundation, Bradford Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.

Where is Van Dykebilly Foundation based?

Van Dykebilly Foundation is based in MN.

Van Dykebilly Foundation

Van Dykebilly Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$500k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$90k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$2.3MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$505kReligion$227kHealth$122kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$13kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k29 grants · $100k
$10k–50k10 grants · $220k
$50k–250k2 grants · $180k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA	$90,000
A HUMANE WORLD	$90,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY	$40,000
PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS	$35,000
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$35,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY OF ANIMALS	$20,000
ST THOMAS FOUNDATION	$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$20,000
VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
ZOO NEW ENGLAND	$10,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$10,000
C&W RUSTIC HALLOW SHELTER	$6,000
WOUNDED PAW PROJECT	$5,000
PAWS OF WAR	$5,000

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.

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Its 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 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 100% of Van Dykebilly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 0%.

Van Dykebilly Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 56 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+17%

Still filing today

64%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

HW
Humane World for Animals Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $547k · revenue +31%
PF
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +147%
CZ
COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +85%

Funded once

AF
AMANDAS FARM ANIMAL RESCUE
one grant, 2022 · $24k
VO
VOYAGEURS OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $20k
GU
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $11k

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.

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals

World Animal Protection

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…

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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Paws Need People

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.

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Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals

Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals

Hope for China Dogs Rescue

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…

Animals

Animal Angels

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

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

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 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.

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)

46/50

Grantees still filing

30/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,345,460Animals$1,742,440Health$121,000Arts & Culture$76,000Human Services$67,000Environment$60,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$9,000

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.

Joyce a Ward FoundationCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Van Dykebilly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Dykebilly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home