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William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$185k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$184,768
Largest grant, FY2023
$184,768
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$185k0%
FY202215$18k0%
FY202115$18k0%
FY202015$18k0%
FY201915$18k0%
FY201816$21k0%
FY201717$21kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$207kEducation$21kHealth$18kArts & Culture$12kReligion$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kYouth Development$6kCivil Rights$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blanton-Peale Institute$9,00060%
United Way of the Capital Region$7,00060%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$7,00060%
Milton Hershey School Alumni Association$6,00061%
Lancaster Bible College$6,00060%
Albright College$6,00060%
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa$6,00060%
Ocean City Tabernacle Association Inc$6,00060%
Ursinus College$3,00060%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlanton-Peale Institute: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Capital Region: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMilton Hershey School Alumni Association: $6,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLancaster Bible College: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlbright College: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts in the Heart of Pa: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOcean City Tabernacle Association Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUrsinus College: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation

How much does William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation give?
William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $184,768 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Education (7%), Health (6%).
Who are William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Blanton-Peale Institute ($9k), United Way of the Capital Region ($7k), American Parkinson Disease Assoc ($7k).
Does William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William Ec & Mary Dearden 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 William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation based?
William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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