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DGDG Does Good Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k23 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Make a Wish Foundation | $20,000 |
| Tyler Putnam Foundation | $10,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Nephcure | $5,000 |
| Travis Oducayen Foundation | $5,000 |
| Happy Hollow Foundation | $2,500 |
| San Jose Police Foundation | $2,500 |
| LRCC Wildcat Foundation | $2,500 |
| FHDA Foundation | $2,200 |
| Justice Vanguard | $2,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| Breathe California of the Bay Area | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Sutterville Preschool | $250 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +130% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- TSTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +87%
- HHHappy Hollow Foundation2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +130%
- SBSOUTH BAY YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT2× · 2022–2023 · $500
Funded once
- BABAND AGAINST MSINCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -20%
- TATHE AUBRI BROWN CLUBone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
- FEFAMMATRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $250
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.
San francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation (sffcpf) is committed to the prevention and early detection of cancer and providing access to cutting edge care for active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and…
The Sacramento County Sheriffs Foundation; supports the Sheriffs Office by providing equipment, training, and aid to employees and their families. It focuses on combating drug use and gang activity among young students while bringing…
Support for local law enforcement
Support Santa Clara Unified SD students and programs
San Francisco United Soccer Club teaches girls and boys to play the game of soccer with skills well-honed through hard work and patient coaching. The Club fosters collaboration and teamwork bolstered by warm on- and off-the-field…
The Law Foundation uses the law as a tool for change. The Law Foundation addresses problems linked to social injustices like poverty, discrimination, child abuse, and neglect. Every day, our attorneys, social workers, and advocates craft…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
The American Spaniel Club Foundation (The Foundation and/or ASC Foundation and /or ASCF) is the only nonprofit 501c3 with the mission of bettering the life of Cocker Spaniels through research, education, and rescue.
To provide training of personnel and training equipment for the los gatos-monte sereno police department, a municipal corporation of the state of california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sharks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Jose Police Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 BAND AGAINST MSINC ↗
- Who funds THE SHARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Happy Hollow Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds San Jose Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds LRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Justice Vanguard ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Breathe California of the Bay Area Golden Gate and Central Coast ↗
- Who funds SUTTERVILLE PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LGOST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
- Who funds ALTA VISTA HOME & SCHOOL CLUB ↗
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: Analog Devices Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 DGDG Does Good Foundation 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.
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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