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Dawkins Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PUGET SOUND | $3,950,209 |
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 (FY17–23, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +90% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HOHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM5× · 2017–2023 · $475k · revenue +29%
- CLCAPITOL LAND TRUST5× · 2017–2023 · $475k · revenue +171%
- TCTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CLCISPUS LEARNING CENTERAWSPone grant, 2023 · $70k
- TETHE EVERGEEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION FBO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- OSOLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group and the most unlike its peers is Gentlepaws. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 1% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 107 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 HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NISQUALLY REACH NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
- Who funds NORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NISQUALLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Concern for Animals ↗
- Who funds North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Heartstrides Therapeutic Riding ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SHELLFISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ORCA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Homeless Backpacks Inc ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pierce County Aids Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIZZA KLATCH ↗
- Who funds Wild Orca ↗
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 Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · United Way of Thurston County · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · Artsfund · The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council
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 Dawkins Charitable Trust 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.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
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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