New Hampshire · Nonprofit
DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC
DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($224,847). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $488k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Dartmouth Dragon Foundation Inc does
Mission
To preserve and carry on the educational and charitable traditions and ceremonies of the dragon senior society organization which, since its founding in 1898, has promoted the ideals of academic excellence, community service, leadership, high moral purpose, and respect for the traditions of the college; and to train and educate selected undergraduate members of dartmouth college to become prospective leaders of the college, local,national, and global communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education in 2025, the foundation organized and fully underwrote two primary educational programs. The first program is a day-long program of career panels and networking opportunities which serves 35-50 undergraduates annually. The foundation also plans and underwrites an annual educational webinar series, which reaches more than 1,500 dartmouth alumni and their families and approximately 60 undergraduates annually. In addition to the two formal educational programs, the foundation provides informal mentoring opportunities to the undergraduate students through the hosting of alumni visits. The foundation also makes the dragon facility available, free of charge, to the undergraduate members (approximately 60 students annually), who make extensive use of the building's meeting and study spaces through peer-driven learning activities including informal academic discourse, fulfillment of group leadership roles, group goal setting and planning, community service planning, and basic financial management activities. The foundation maintains the facility's wireless high-speed connectivity to ensure the strongest support of undergraduate learning activities.
$118,354 spent78% of program spendingCommunity service the foundation made charitable donations to local 501(c)(3) organizations that support the upper valley community in the areas of education, food insecurity, domestic violence prevention and counseling, housing insecurity/shelter services and children's programs. The foundation also made a donation to partially underwrite a public speaker series, which is open to the public through both in-person and virtual delivery of the programming, at dartmouth college.
$6,859 spentof which $3,500 as grants4% of program spendingHistorical preservation the foundation is committed to preserving the more than 125-year history and historical architecture of the dartmouth dragon senior society on observatory road in hanover, nh. In 2025 the foundation underwrote costs associated with maintaining and preserving the historical physical structure. The dragon building also serves as a repository for both dragon senior society and dartmouth college-related historical documents and memorabilia.
$27,340 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,553.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $270k to $930k (+244%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jeffrey W Davidson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $74k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC?
- DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($224,847). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $487,999 in grants to DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $224,847 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing