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Dew Foundation

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.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$6.4MHousing & Shelter$5.1MFood & Nutrition$2.4MInternational$1.6MEducation$1.4MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$880kPublic Safety & Disaster$812kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.8M
$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ARTISTS$4,764,994
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART$230,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$150,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP$150,000
NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC$100,000
MERCY SHIPS$100,000
ARTS CONNECTION FISCAL SPONSOR OF I$100,000
TEAM RUBICON$100,000
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC$100,000
MATTHEWS HOPE MINISTRIES INC$90,000
JOSHUA TREE LIVING ARTS HDLAC$87,000
THIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP$80,000
OPEN STUDIO PROJECT$80,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$80,000
EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO$72,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $10k → 11%HOLLY'S HEART: $10k → 6%RESTORING HOPE FAMILY RESOURCE CENT: $30k → 25%SHELTERBOX USA: $50k → 9%SHELTERBOX USA: $100k → 10%FREE2LUV: $15k → 9%SALEM4YOUTH: $25k → 12%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $10k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $15k → 16%SHELTERBOX USA: $30k → 9%SHELTERBOX USA: $75k → 10%FREE2LUV: $10k → 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $170k → 11%SALEM4YOUTH: $10k → 12%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $10k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10k → 16%SHELTERBOX USA: $10k → 9%SHELTERBOX USA: $50k → 10%FREE2LUV: $5k → 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $150k → 11%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $10k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $150k → 11%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $9k → 11%CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $25k → 14%MATTHEWS HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $90k → 13%MIDWEST FOD BANK NFP: $150k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $10k → 11%MATTHEWS HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 13%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $125k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $5k → 11%MORONGO BASIN UNITY HOME INC: $40k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $60k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $5k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $50k → 11%GUARDIAN HOUSE: $50k → 16%MIDWEST FOD BANK NFP: $35k → 11%CHILDSAFE: $50k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $25k → 11%CHILDSAFE: $50k → 16%SANCTUARY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $5k → 17%SANCTUARY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS: $10k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS: $5k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS: $3k → 10%ABILITYFIRST: $25k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Dew Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 13%.

Dew Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 113 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
59

Total granted

$14M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $915k · revenue +249%
  • ES
    Experimental Sound Studio
    8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +229%
  • CF
    Chicago Film Archives NFP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $422k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEVADA LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +357%
  • PC
    Pipe Creek Volunteer Fire Department Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • AM
    African Mission Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -49%
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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
3
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
4
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
6
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
7
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
11
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture
12
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Mrd Global Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 199 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/140
Grantees still filing
98/140
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AHA Projects: $4,764,994 · Housing & ShelterAHA Projects+3 more: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterINSTITUTE OF INQUIRY: $336,500 · OtherKECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC: $320,000 · OtherPERSHING SQUARE PARK ADVISORY BOARD: $300,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUND: $250,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INQUIRY WEST: $229,000 · OtherWARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INC: $300,000 · OtherCHESSKIDZ INC: $240,750 · Other+112 more: $4,362,525 · Other+112 moreAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $682,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAM…Experimental Sound Studio: $539,696 · Arts & CultureExperimental Sound Studi…Chicago Film Archives NFP: $422,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Film Archives NF…HYDE PARK ART CENTER: $410,400 · Arts & CultureHYDE PARK ART CENTERFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $367,389 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCMUSIC WITH CONFIDENCE: $313,217 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WITH CONFIDENCEART SHARE LOS ANGELES: $282,500 · Arts & CultureART SHARE LOS ANGELESNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $160,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN STUDIO PROJECT INC: $160,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $971,555 · Arts & Culture+25 moreMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $915,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FO…SHELTERBOX USA INC: $315,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX…MATTHEW'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesMATTHEW'S …CHILDSAFE: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSAFE+14 more: $426,725 · Human Services+14 moreCONVOY OF HOPE: $700,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $280,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $180,000 · InternationalEQUIPPING AFRICA: $125,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 · InternationalAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $50,000 · International+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $565,000 · HealthMEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH: $351,380 · HealthRIVER CITY ADVOCACY: $55,000 · HealthOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthEDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $45,000 · Health+6 more: $117,000 · HealthFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $320,000 · Food & NutritionST VINNYS BISTRO: $85,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Housing & Shelter$4,859,994Other$6,563,775Arts & Culture$4,514,257Human Services$1,871,725International$1,420,000Health$1,183,380Food & Nutrition$445,000

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 budgetAHA Projects: $4,764,994 over 1y, 59% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $915,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $700,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $682,500 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $565,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetExperimental Sound Studio: $539,696 over 8y, 22% of budgetChicago Film Archives NFP: $422,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $410,400 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $367,389 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH: $351,380 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $320,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $315,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMUSIC WITH CONFIDENCE: $313,217 over 7y, 62% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetART SHARE LOS ANGELES: $282,500 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMercy Ships International: $280,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESSKIDZ INC: $240,750 over 7y, 64% of budgetWARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL: $225,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $215,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $205,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $160,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetOPEN STUDIO PROJECT INC: $160,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $150,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEIDI DUCKLER DANCE: $142,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetEQUIPPING AFRICA: $125,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $120,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSHAMROCK PRODUCTIONS: $116,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $115,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP: $109,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDSAFE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $86,789 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetST VINNYS BISTRO: $85,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $82,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA LAND TRUST: $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $65,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMil-Tree Veteran Project: $60,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE OPTIONS: $57,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER: $56,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY ADVOCACY: $55,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL RECYCLING COALITION INC: $51,000 over 2y, 50% 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 AHA Projects ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Experimental Sound Studio ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Film Archives NFP ↗
  • Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WITH CONFIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds ART SHARE LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds CHESSKIDZ INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP ↗
  • Who funds OPEN STUDIO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPPING AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds CRAFT CONTEMPORARY ↗
  • Who funds SHAMROCK PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation

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 Dew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dew Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dew Foundation 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 199 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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