The Dalton Family Foundation
Scarsdale, NY · EIN 30-0133600. Reported 131 grants totalling $2,688,253 to 74 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Dalton Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations The Dalton Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 4 grants totalling $213,785 to them. That is 23% of the $924,661 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | federated giving programme | New York | $154,047 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Nicklaus Children's Health Care | grantmaking organization | Florida | $49,738 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way of Palm Beach County Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $6,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $737 and the largest $200,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $498,010 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Weill Cornell Medicine | New York, NY | $201,649 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vanderbuilt University Medical Center Department | Nashville, TN | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Telluride Ski & Snowboard Club | Telluride, CO | $190,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | New York, NY | $154,047 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Children's Action Fund | Geneve | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Person to Person | Darien, CT | $79,965 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children Action Fondation Pour La Protection De L'enfance Er L'action | Geneva, Switzerland | $79,778 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Mary's Foundation | Grand Junction, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Weill Cornell Medical of Cornell University | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation Inc | North Palm Beach, FL | $49,738 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Telluride Mountain Film | Telluride, CO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Marshall Project | New York, NY | $39,575 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sheridan Arts Foundation | Telluride, CO | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Biship Gadsden | Charleston, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medical University of South Carolina | Charleston, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sheep Mountain Alliance | Telluride, CO | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Shine Global | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Telluride Adaptive Sports Program | Telluride, CO | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Natick, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mountainfilm | Telluride, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Telluride Society for Jazz | Telluride, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The American India Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Telluride Medical Center Foundation | Telluride, CO | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $15,741 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nashoba Learning Group | Bedford, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sparky Latina Scholarship Fund | Telluride, CO | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Hospital Foundation | Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Scarsdale Library | Scarsdale, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just for Kids Foundation | Telluride, CO | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Louis Capano Family Foundation | Wilmington, DE | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ah Haa School for the Arts | Telluride, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Blue Sphere Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mount Sinai Dubin Breast Center | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nature Conservancy of Colorado | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Only One Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Second Chance Humane Society | Ridgway, CO | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Telluride Foundation Covid-19 Response Fund | Telluride, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Telluride Mountain Club | Telluride, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Telluride Angel Baskets | Telluride, CO | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amas Musical Theatre | New York, NY | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Oakwood Schools Foundation | Oakwood, OH | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Telluride Theatre | Telluride, CO | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Immigration Counsel | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coombs Outdoors | Jackson, WY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Bank for New York City | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Himalayan Cataract Project | Waterbury, VT | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lifting Up Westchester | White Plains, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pan Mass Challenge 2022 (john Macfarlene) | Needham, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pulaski County Bar Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Miguel Bike Alliance | Telluride, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Scarsdale Schools Education Foundation | Scarsdale, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steve's Camp | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Syrian American Medical Society Foundation | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Telluride Humane Society | Telluride, CO | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Telluride Nordic Association | Telluride, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Pinhead Institute | Telluride, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Angel Baskets | Telluride, CO | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps | Scarsdale, NY | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Miguel Resource Center | Telluride, CO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mga Caddie Scholarship Fund | Elmsford, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The New Choral Society | Scarsdale, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Koto-Fm Radio | Telluride, CO | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Broadway Caresequity Fight AIDS | New York, NY | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Koto Radio | Telluride, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Re-Run Inc | East Greenbush, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Telluride Volunteer Fire Department | Telluride, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
30 of 74 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 43%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
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.
- Biship Gadsden
General Purposes - Employee Appreciation Fund/Chapel Music Program - Himalayan Cataract Project
General Purposes - HCP Cureblindness
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 68 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $600,750 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 30 | $678,724 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $759,991 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $294,510 | $6,500 |
| 2024 | 22 | $354,278 | $5,000 |
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
55% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Dalton Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 7 Oakstwain Road, Scarsdale, NY, 10583. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 30-0133600 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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