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William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$184,768
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASONIC CHARITIES$184,768
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HARRISBURG CONSISTORY: $1k → 12%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%HAGGAI FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HARRISBURG CONSISTORY: $1k → 12%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HARRISBURG CONSISTORY: $1k → 12%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HARRISBURG CONSISTORY: $1k → 12%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HARRISBURG CONSISTORY: $1k → 12%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $1k → 11%BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%MASONIC CHARITIES: $185k → 9%UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $2k → 12%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 16 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$294k
$3k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BI
    BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +55%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +61%
  • MH
    MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • HF
    HAGGAI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

1
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
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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5
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ursinus College; the most unlike its peers is Milton Hershey School Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASONIC CHARITIES: $199,768 · OtherMASONIC CHARITIESHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · Other+7 more: $34,500 · Other+7 moreBLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $9,000 · ReligionOCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · ReligionLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationURSINUS COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $7,000 · HealthGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$246,268Religion$15,000Education$15,000Philanthropy$7,000Health$7,000Youth Development$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • Who funds BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CITY TABERNACLE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE ↗

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.

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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 William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Ec & Mary Dearden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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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