The Dinan Family Foundation

• The Dinan Family Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered; the only route the filing describes is an invitation, so a grant writer should not expect an open call to succeed.
• Most of its grants are modest: about 8 in 10 fall between $1,800 and $200,000, and half of its 162 grants are $10,000 or less, so a request in that range fits its usual pattern, although its largest grant was $2,050,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• Repeat giving is strong, with 93% of its grant dollars going to organisations it had also funded in its earlier filings, so existing relationships matter more than any new approach.
• Its grants point to university education, specialty hospital care and arts & culture, but these themes are drawn from its grants rather than stated by the foundation, and no geographic focus is stated, so the locations in its grants (mainly New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Pennsylvania) should not be read as a rule on who may apply.
• The filing gives no timing or deadlines, so any planning should rest on the invitation route rather than a fixed cycle.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Rockefeller University · University education
  $2,050,0002024 tax year
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · General
  $1,349,5992024 tax year
• Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · University education
  $588,9542024 tax year
• Smith College · College education
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Museum of the City of New York · Arts & culture
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Froedtert Hospital Foundation · Advanced patient care services
  $200,0002024 tax year
• St Jude Children's Research Hospital · Hospital for childhood cancer and pediatric diseas
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Hospital for Special Surgery Fund · Specialty hospital care
  $194,2002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.