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Dahlgren Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $90,000 |
| TRINITY HOPE | $62,224 |
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $53,050 |
| PALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $35,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BANNING MUSEUM | $15,500 |
| OPEN DOOR PREGNANCY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| RAINER CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +72% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- AFAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $515k · revenue +260%
- ABAmerican Battlefield Trust7× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +72%
- PVPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +9%
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +59%- ETEASTERN TENNESSEE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SPST PATRICK'S ANGLICAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The naval institute foundation was organized to operate exclusively to raise funds for charitable and educational purposes to further the mission and policies of the united states naval institute.
To preserve the lessons and legacy of d-day.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum and the most unlike its peers is For Sudan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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 AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN WAYNE BIRTHPLACE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BLOEDEL RESERVE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds RAINIER CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR SUDAN INC ↗
- Who funds DEER PARK COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP CAMERON MICHAELS ↗
- Who funds REDONDO BEACH POLICE AND FIRE 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: The Confidence Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Dahlgren Family Foundation Inc 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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