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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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.5MEnvironment$1.7MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$977kArts & Culture$686kFood & Nutrition$625kHuman Services$589kAnimals$453kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,950,209
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PUGET SOUND$3,950,209
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY LIFELINE: $560 → 11%SAFEPLACE: $50k → 9%FAITH IN ACTION WEST SOUND: $2k → 11%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $524 → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $693 → 9%THURSTON COUNTY INCLUSION: $22k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 9%FAMILY EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $30k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $35k → 9%CIELO PROJECT RADIO RANCH: $149 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 44 repeat orgs$779k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
63

Total granted

$11M
$779k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+60%

Still filing today

68%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HO
    HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $475k · revenue +29%
  • CL
    CAPITOL LAND TRUST
    5× · 2017–2023 · $475k · revenue +171%
  • TC
    THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • CL
    CISPUS LEARNING CENTERAWSP
    one grant, 2023 · $70k
  • OS
    OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TE
    THE EVERGEEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION FBO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Re Sources

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.

Environment
2
Futurewise

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.

Environment
3
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
4
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
5
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

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

Health
6
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

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.

Community Improvement
7
Stewardship Partners

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,…

Environment
8
Thurston County Youth Market Animal Sale Comm
Food & Nutrition
9
House Our Neighbors

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…

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10
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
11
Economic Opportunity Institute

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.

Community Improvement
12
Pacific Marine Research

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
62/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PUGET SOUND: $4,360,209 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PUGET SOUNDIndividual grant recipient: $345,000 · OtherNISQUALLY REACH NATURE CENTER: $290,000 · Other+64 more: $3,386,815 · Other+64 moreCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $475,000 · EnvironmentCAPITOL LAND…NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $218,249 · EnvironmentNISQUALLY LA…SOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $215,271 · EnvironmentSOUTH SOUND …North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $175,000 · EnvironmentNorth Coast …KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $140,389 · EnvironmentKITCHEN GARD…OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $100,000 · EnvironmentOLYMPIA ECOS…SAFEPLACE: $250,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $235,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $140,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Backpacks Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesPIZZA KLATCH: $65,000 · Human Services+8 more: $27,462 · Human ServicesHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $475,101 · Arts & CultureFire Mountain Arts Council: $31,188 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $2,768 · Arts & CultureConcern for Animals: $180,000 · AnimalsORCA NETWORK: $120,000 · AnimalsWild Orca: $52,500 · AnimalsSOUTH PUGET SOUND SALMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP: $40,000 · AnimalsGENTLEPAWS: $20,000 · AnimalsHooved Animal Rescue of Thurston County: $15,000 · Animals+2 more: $690 · AnimalsTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $350,000 · Food & NutritionHeartstrides Therapeutic Riding: $150,000 · HealthTHE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC: $136,544 · HealthMAYDAY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health+2 more: $2,233 · Health
Other$8,382,024Environment$1,323,909Human Services$827,462Arts & Culture$509,057Animals$428,190Food & Nutrition$350,000Health$328,777

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $475,101 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $475,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $350,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNISQUALLY REACH NATURE CENTER: $290,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS: $270,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSAFEPLACE: $250,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $235,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $220,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $218,249 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $215,271 over 5y, 24% of budgetConcern for Animals: $180,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetHeartstrides Therapeutic Riding: $150,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $140,389 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC: $136,544 over 5y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $136,210 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPACIFIC SHELLFISH INSTITUTE: $125,385 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetORCA NETWORK: $120,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetPACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $115,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHomeless Backpacks Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $100,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION: $91,929 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetPierce County Aids Foundation: $65,096 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPIZZA KLATCH: $65,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetWild Orca: $52,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND SALMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY: $40,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMAYDAY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFire Mountain Arts Council: $31,188 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetSOUTH OF THE SOUND COMMUNITY FARM LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY INCLUSION: $21,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetHooved Animal Rescue of Thurston County: $15,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetOlympia Symphony Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Family Support Center of South Sound: $2,037 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION: $1,864 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPANZA: $1,735 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSET BUILDING COALITION: $1,608 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS: $1,574 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER: $1,219 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,217 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $1,079 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HOPE MEDICAL OUTREACH: $1,014 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOMES FIRST: $864 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Olympia: $837 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Thurston County Econo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…School's Out Washingt…United Way of Thursto…Medina FoundationCredit Unions in the …ArtsfundThe Finninsula Founda…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Pacific Mountain Work…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA137.4× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dawkins Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dawkins Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Northwest Youth Corps: 100% of income from government
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Dawkins Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 107 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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