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N W Dible Foundation

Marina Del Ray, CA · EIN 44-6011216. Reported 71 grants totalling $87,420 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$87,420granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$463,281assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. N W Dible Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,000; the smallest was $20 and the largest $7,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
28 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Rabbit Hole KcN Kansas City, MO$11,000442024
Midwest Center for the Literary Arts - Helicon NineKansas City, MO$7,000112024
I-70 Review - Poets & WritersWellsville, KS$6,000222023
Beyond Baroque FoundationVenice, CA$5,300332024
Charlotte Street FoundationKansas City, MO$4,500332024
Bkmk Press IncKansas City, MO$4,000442024
MultistagesNew York, NY$3,350222023
Fractured Atlas - MultistagesNew York, NY$3,000112024
Helicon NineKansas City, MO$3,000112022
I-70 Review IncIndependence, MO$3,000112024
Musicians FoundationNew York, NY$3,000332023
The Writers PlaceKansas City, MO$3,000222023
I-70 Review - Poets&writersorgNew York, NY$2,600112021
Pacific Resident TheatreVenice, CA$2,500332024
Beyond BaroqueVenice, CA$2,000112021
Biographers International FoundationSanta Fe, NM$2,000222023
Biographers International OrganizationSanta Fe, NM$2,000112024
League of Professional Theatre WomenNew York, NY$2,000222024
BaacBatesville, IN$1,500332023
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas CityKansas City, MO$1,500222024
Kc Melting Pot TheatreKansas City, MO$1,500222024
Kckscc FoundationKansas City, KS$1,500222023
Kansas City Museum FoundationKansas City, MO$1,250222024
Fractured AtlasNew York, NY$1,000112021
Ku EndowmentLawrence, KS$1,000112021
Midwest Center for the Literary Arts - the Writers PlaceKansas City, MO$1,000112024
Musicians InstituteHollywood, CA$1,000112024
Scapegoat PressKansas City, MO$1,000222024
Umkc FoundationKansas City, MO$1,000112022
Weston Historical Museum - BaacWeston, MO$1,000112024
Jane Unchained News NetworkMarina Del Ray, CA$750112022
Global Womens Empowerment NetworkWoodland Hills, CA$600112024
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VA$500112022
Foundation ThinkagainLos Angeles, CA$500112024
Kansas City Kansas Community College FoundationKansas City, KS$500112024
Academy of American PoetsNew York, NY$300332024
Poetry Society of AmericaNew York, NY$300332024
Sierra Club FoundationOakland, CA$250112022
Free Venice BeachheadVenice, CA$100112024
Poet Society of AmericaNew York, NY$100112021
Los Angeles MissionLos Angeles, CA$20112021

19 of 41 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
27 grants
Education
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Environment
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$10,970$1,000
202220$25,200$1,000
202318$19,900$1,000
202423$31,350$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 50% of this one's giving went to organizations in Missouri. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Missouri
$44K
New York
$16K
California
$13K
Kansas
$9K
New Mexico
$4K
Indiana
$2K
Virginia
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsGreater Kansas City Community Foundation6 shared recipientsEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsThe Francis Family Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Missouri.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from N W Dible Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4316 Marina City Dr Unit 133, Marina Del Ray, CA, 90292. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 44-6011216 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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