Washington · Private foundation
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.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,950,209
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,950,209
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 81
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Dawkins Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $4.0M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 81 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hands on Children's Museum | $475,101 | 5 | 4% |
| Capitol Land Trust | $475,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Thurston County Food Bank | $350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nisqually Reach Nature Center | $290,000 | 5 | 45% |
| Northwest Youth Corps | $270,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Safeplace | $250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| North Thurston Education Foundation | $250,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Family Education & Support Services | $235,000 | 5 | 3% |
| South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity | $220,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Nisqually Land Trust | $218,249 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dawkins Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Dawkins Charitable Trust
- How much does Dawkins Charitable Trust give?
- Dawkins Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $3,950,209 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 81 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dawkins Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Environment (14%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Dawkins Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hands on Children's Museum ($475k), Capitol Land Trust ($475k), Thurston County Food Bank ($350k).
- Does Dawkins Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dawkins Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dawkins Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound, Thurston County Economic Development Cou, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Dawkins Charitable Trust based?
- Dawkins Charitable Trust is based in WA.
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