· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $915k · revenue +249%
- ESExperimental Sound Studio8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +229%
- CFChicago Film Archives NFP7× · 2018–2024 · $422k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- NLNEVADA LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +357%
- PCPipe Creek Volunteer Fire Department Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +74%
- AMAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundationone 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.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
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.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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.
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…
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.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
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.
- Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc: 1% of income from government
- Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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