The Paul J DiMare Foundation

• This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and makes grants by invitation only, so cold applications are unlikely to succeed.
• Its giving is led by education, with further support for medicine, the arts, social services, medical purposes, youth services, human services, museums and religion, so a project should sit clearly within one of these areas.
• Request size should be modest to moderate: about eight in ten of its 42 grants to organisations fall between $10,000 and $600,000, with a median grant of $50,000, though it has made one much larger award of about $8,850,000.
• The pattern of giving is strongly relationship-led rather than open to competition, as 99% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had already funded in the previous two filings, so new applicants should look for an existing connection before approaching.
• No geographic focus is stated, though its grants have mainly reached organisations in Florida and Massachusetts; as it does not accept unsolicited requests, organisations without an existing relationship or invitation should not apply.

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

• Umass Medical Als Research Fund · education
  $8,850,0162025 tax year
• Buoniconti Fund · medicine
  $3,600,0002025 tax year
• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens · Youth services
  $50,6002025 tax year
• American Red Cross · Education
  $50,0002025 tax year
• United Way Miami · human services
  $35,0002025 tax year
• Women of Tomorrow · social services
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Young Patronesses of the Opera · arts
  $10,0002025 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.