· Private foundation
Dahl Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $250 |
| CAPTAIN SAX FOUNDATION | $130 |
| THE TWIN TO TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $120 |
| COMO FRIENDS | $100 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $40 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $653) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCOMO FRIENDS6× · 2019–2024 · $1k · revenue +97%
LEASHES OF VALOR3× · 2020–2022 · $546 · revenue +184%- KTKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $427 · revenue +9%
Funded once
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCone grant, 2019 · $226 · revenue +13%
- SFSEMPER FI COMMUNITY TASK FORCEone grant, 2023 · $218 · revenue -21%
- DDDYLAN'S DOGS FOR DIABETESone grant, 2018 · $205
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
D2dt creates an opportunity to save at risk, rescued, or donated dogs, train them, and place them with deserving service members who have been diagnosed with post combat stress and anxiety. the purpose is to provide the veteran, at no…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
To provide quality trained assistance dogs for mobility-challenged individuals, hearing-impaired individuals and veterans with combat related ptsd.
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Happy tails rescue foundation, founded in 2005, is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization dedicated to rescuing homeless and abandoned animals. by working with committed volunteers, foster homes, and trainers, we are able to rescue dogs and…
Takes dogs from shelters, pairs them with deserving veterans and first responders and provides a free guided training program for post traumatic stress and light mobility service dogs.
Our mission is to rescue abandoned, homeless, abused, neglected and otherwise unwanted dogs and cats, with the ultimate goal of finding each one a stable and loving forever home
To complement traditional treatment for veterans with ptsd, tbi, and mst by training them and a dog to become highly effective service dog teams
Providing highly trained service dogs for wounded united states military veterans in need of assistance
Our mission is to train and provide service dogs for veteran and wounded warriors and to raise public awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Paws for Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dylan's Dogs for Diabetes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds LEASHES OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI COMMUNITY TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds DYLAN'S DOGS FOR DIABETES ↗
- Who funds THE TWIN TO TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the River Valley ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Dahl Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.
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