· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DEATH PENALTY ACTION | $2,500 |
| FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,500 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,000 |
| EXECUTION INTERVENTION PROJECT | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $1,500 |
| PROJECT HOPE TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY | $1,000 |
| FLORIDIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY I | $1,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $1,000 |
| DEATH PENALTY ACTION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of David D Dodge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +108%- DPDEATH PENALTY FOCUSone grant, 2024 · $350 · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David D Dodge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David D Dodge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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