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Am Dachs Foundation at a glance

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Am Dachs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$870k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MHealth$410kSocial Science$180kAnimals$125kFood & Nutrition$125kEnvironment$50kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THACHER SCHOOL$250,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE THACHER SCHOOL$50,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$50,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$37,500
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$25,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$25,000
MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$25,000
LANDMARK SCHOOL$25,000
JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $50k → 8%LANDMARK SCHOOL: $500k → 10%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $250k → 7%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE THACHER SCHOOL: $250k → 10%HEAD-ROYCE SCHOOL: $50k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $25k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 7%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25k → 8%LANDMARK SCHOOL: $130k → 10%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%THE THACHER SCHOOL: $50k → 10%HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $50k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $25k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $105k → 7%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25k → 8%LANDMARK SCHOOL: $75k → 10%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%THE THACHER SCHOOL: $50k → 10%HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $50k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $25k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%LANDMARK SCHOOL: $25k → 10%MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $38k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%LANDMARK SCHOOL: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $38k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $25k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $25k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION: $25k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%WESLYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MA
CT
CA
TN
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 14 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 13 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

14
4

Total granted

$2.9M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthSocial ScienceEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $820k · revenue +40%
  • LANDMARK SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +42%
  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • CS
    CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $265k · revenue +25%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +82%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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5
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
9
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
10
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

—
11
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College; the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $820,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $755,000 · EducationLANDMARK SCHOOL INCThe Thacher School Inc: $350,000 · EducationThe Thacher School IncUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $275,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $265,000 · EducationCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOLPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $42,500 · EducationTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherTHE HEAD R…SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $125,000 · OtherSAN FRANCI…DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $25,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLI…FOUR WINDS: $17,500 · OtherFOUR WINDS+2 more: $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $100,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $80,000 · Social ScienceJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · HealthMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · AnimalsDucks Unlimited Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Conservation: $25,000 · EnvironmentKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,607,500Other$325,000Social Science$180,000Health$132,500Animals$100,000Environment$50,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $820,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $755,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $265,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUR WINDS: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFARWISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Laural FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Etc Family FoundationAed FoundationVanguard Charitable E…
Laural FoundationCA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laural Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Etc Family Foundation · Aed Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Am Dachs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Am Dachs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Am Dachs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Am Dachs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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