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Dare 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.

$937k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MInternational$448kYouth Development$410kHuman Services$336kReligion$306kCivil Rights$289kArts & Culture$196kEducation$173kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARE DONOR ADVISED FUND$400,000
SOREK$125,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC$100,000
CHAKARA$50,000
ISRAEL DEMOCRACY FUND$25,000
OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$23,000
BURNING MAN PROJECT$20,000
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE$20,000
ABRAHAM INITIATIVES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,350
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$18,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$16,500
SECOND HARVEST$15,000
FAR AWAY PROJECTS$10,000
JCRC$10,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FAR AWAY PROJECTS: $10k → 12%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 10%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

ME
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
DC
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 49 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
46

Total granted

$2.1M
$713k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

73%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalReligionEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +43%
  • OF
    OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2019–2024 · $367k · revenue +5%
  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • OC
    OZ CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $160k
  • PF
    PEF FUND #129 THE LDAN FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $120k
  • L
    LEADARESHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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10
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
11
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
12
Sherit Isroel
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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

74 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. 74 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $400,000 · OtherDARE DONOR ADVISED FUNDOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $366,726 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTEROZ CHARITABLE FUND: $160,000 · OtherOZ CHARITABLE FUNDMAPS: $135,270 · OtherMAPSPEF FUND #129 THE LDAN FUND: $120,000 · OtherPEF FUND #129 THE LDAN FUND+89 more: $918,882 · Other+89 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $156,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOW…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $151,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS N…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CH…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $66,116 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDER…JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $140,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $135,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HAR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $82,450 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $75,000 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM IN…HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $40,000 · InternationalHEROIC HEARTS …+6 more: $50,750 · International+6 moreFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $410,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION …+1 more: $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentHorizons Foundation: $66,000 · Community ImprovementBURNING MAN PROJECT: $50,000 · Community Improvement50 50 Startups Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementSOREK: $125,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $7,900 · Civil RightsGLIDE FOUNDATION: $43,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORESHET INC: $35,000 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $18,000 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $10,117 · Religion+2 more: $3,030 · Religion
Other$2,100,878Philanthropy$589,416International$523,200Youth Development$411,800Community Improvement$146,000Civil Rights$132,900Religion$109,147

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $410,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $366,726 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $156,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $151,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOREK: $125,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $82,450 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $66,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons Foundation: $66,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORESHET INC: $35,000 over 4y, 33% of budget50 50 Startups Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,033 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC: $19,565 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONETABLE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $14,100 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $10,117 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINIAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFAR AWAY PROJECTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $8,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Film Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER BRIDGE: $4,300 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The Somekh Family Fou…Koret FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…New Israel FundJohn Pritzker Family …Daffy Charitable FundGs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA45.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Somekh Family Foundation · Koret Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · New Israel Fund · John Pritzker Family Fund · Daffy Charitable Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Dare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dare 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 127 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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