How much did AM DACHS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

AM DACHS FOUNDATION reported 25 grants totaling $870,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is AM DACHS FOUNDATION based?

AM DACHS FOUNDATION is based in CA.

AM DACHS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

AM DACHS FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$870k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$250k

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.1MSocial Science$180kAnimals$100kHealth$83kEnvironment$25kOther$850k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

pledge wesleyan

2019

care

2020

wesleyan

2021

wesleyan

2022

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2023

marinfood bank'sbank's endingending hungercrystalwesleyan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $35k
$10k–50k14 grants · $335k
$50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE THACHER SCHOOL$250,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE THACHER SCHOOL$50,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$37,500
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$25,000
JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$25,000
LANDMARK SCHOOL$25,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 66% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 15 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+105%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationSocial ScienceHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

LANDMARK SCHOOL
5× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +23%
WU
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
6× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +1%
HS
HEAD-ROYCE SCHOOL
3× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

CS
CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $265k · revenue +61%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +105%
WU
WESLYAN UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Collegiate School

See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.

Education

The Cambridge School

Operate a classical school from pre-K through 12th grade education.

Education

Menlo School

Establish and operate as an educational institution for the education of young men and women.

—

California Academy of Sciences

To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration

Arts & Culture

Washington School Principals Education

Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.

—

Brooks School

Brooks school is a college preparatory school that seeks to provide the most meaningful educational experience our students will have in their lives.

Education

The Pennington School

The pennington school is an independent co-educational school serving day and boarding students in grades 6-12. we are dedicated to developing excellence in all students.

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The Hill School

Secondary boarding/day educational institution

Education

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna College's mission is to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions. Claremont McKenna College emphasizes economics and political science;…

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The Berkeley School

A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.

—

The Browning School

A college preparatory school for boys instilling the pursuit of academic excellence, a lifelong love of learning, the belief in the dignity of the individual, the development of personal integrity, and a responsibility to the broader…

Education

Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Head Royce School and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,127,500Other$850,000Social Science$180,000Animals$100,000Health$82,500Environment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Laural FoundationCA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laural Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AM DACHS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LANDMARK SCHOOL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 042429311 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LANDMARK SCHOOL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Am Dachs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Am Dachs Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AM DACHS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Am Dachs Foundation?

More from the funding graph

AM DACHS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Am Dachs Foundation?

More from the funding graph