· Private foundation
David D Dodge Foundation
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 $10k21 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,700 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,500 |
| FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DEATH PENALTY ACTION | $2,500 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,000 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $1,500 |
| RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $1,000 |
| PROJECT SHELUKA | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of David D Dodge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +28%
- RRRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +15%
- FOFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +10%
Funded once
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +125%- DPDEATH PENALTY FOCUSone grant, 2024 · $350 · revenue 0%
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.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Felony Murder Elimination Project is a grassroots organization of families and community members impacted by incarceration. Our goal is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law and bring an end to extreme sentences,…
To provide direct representation to those on death row in north carolina as well as to provide consulting, research and training services to attorneys appointed to represent persons facing the death penalty in north carolina.
The mission of florida public defender association, inc. is to secure an equitable justice system and ensure high quality legal representation for people facing loss of liberty.
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
Educate about death penalty issues
To educate people about the death penalty. education takes place in various modes: lectures; disseminating sr. helen's books, dead man walking and the death of innocents and having an active social media presence maintained through…
Reprieve us helps people who are suffering extreme human rights abuses at the hands of powerful governments. reprieve us consists of lawyers and investigators assisting those facing detention without trial, execution and extra-judicial…
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds DEATH PENALTY ACTION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEATH PENALTY FOCUS ↗
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: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 David D Dodge 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.