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Dawe Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$309k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Dawe Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’21
3
’22
4
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$309,097
Largest grant, FY2024
$309,097
Organizations funded a year
5 to 5
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Dawe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20235$14k40%
FY20225$17k0%
FY20215$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$309kEducation$23kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Alaska Foundation$19,30030%
National Gaucher Foundation Inc$8,20020%
Feeding America$5,85030%
Ellsworth College Foundation$2,50010%
Iowa Falls Community School District$1,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About Dawe Family Foundation

How much does Dawe Family Foundation give?
Dawe Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $309,097 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Dawe Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Education (6%), Health (5%).
Who are Dawe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: University of Alaska Foundation ($19k), National Gaucher Foundation Inc ($8k), Feeding America ($6k).
Does Dawe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dawe Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Dawe Family Foundation based?
Dawe Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 8 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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