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Dgdg Does Good 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.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Health$61kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$19kEducation$12kAnimals$8kCrime & Legal$3kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION$100,000
SAN JOSE POLICE FOUNDATION$9,000
FIRST TEE SILICON VALLEY$5,000
CNCDA FOUNDATION$3,000
METROPOLITAN EDUCATION DISTRICT FOUNDATION$3,000
WILLIAMS WINS FOUNDATION$2,750
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SILICON VALLEY$2,500
BRAYDEN COLE HINCK FOUNDATION$2,500
SAINT FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
FHDA FOUNDATION$2,000
ANN SOBRATO ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB$500
SALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$500
LGOST FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$250
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $5k → 8%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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 7 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +171% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$59k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+171%
+24%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SHARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +87%
  • SJ
    San Jose Police Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +171%
  • HH
    Happy Hollow Foundation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • BA
    BAND AGAINST MSINC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • TP
    TYLER PUTNAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -79%
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
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
3
Cabrillo Education Foundation

Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…

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4
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

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.

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5
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
8
San Gabriel Educational Foundation

Support programs at schools in SGVUSD

Education
9
San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation

The 49ers foundation harnesses football to educate and empower bay area youth and beyond through collective and innovative community-focused strategies.

Human Services
10
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
Jewish Silicon Valley

The mission of jewish silicon valley is to harness the power of community to improve lives, build bridges of understanding and strengthen the jewish people here, in israel, and around the world.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sharks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Brayden Cole Hinck Foundation Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 47 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAND AGAINST MSINC: $50,000 · OtherBAND AGAINST MSINCMake a Wish Foundation: $22,500 · OtherMake a Wish FoundationTYLER PUTNAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTYLER PUTNAM FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherTravis Oducayen Foundation: $5,000 · OtherFHDA Foundation: $4,200 · OtherFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $5,000 · Other+28 more: $21,000 · Other+28 moreEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATIONNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSan Jose Police Foundation: $11,500 · Crime & LegalHappy Hollow Foundation: $7,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · HealthSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 · HealthTHE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$123,700Philanthropy$110,000Youth Development$15,000Crime & Legal$11,500Animals$7,500Health$6,750Human Services$5,000

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 budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAND AGAINST MSINC: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSan Jose Police Foundation: $11,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHappy Hollow Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN EDUCATION DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAYDEN COLE HINCK FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJustice Vanguard: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBreathe California of the Bay Area Golden Gate and Central Coast: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLGOST FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTERVILLE PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALTA VISTA HOME & SCHOOL CLUB: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Analog Devices Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Analog Devices FoundationMA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Dgdg Does Good Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dgdg Does Good 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 47 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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