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Dieter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNICEF | $11,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $6,000 |
| AUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET | $6,000 |
| ACRES OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| NEVADA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| PLACER HILLS UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| FALCON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEADOW VISTA FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS | $4,000 |
| SENIORS FIRST (NETWORK FOR GOOD) | $4,000 |
| GOLD COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| AMERICARES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COLLA VOCE OF THE SIERRAS | $1,275 |
| PLACER LAND TRUST | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +76% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +76%- NCNevada County Habitat For Humanity9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +210%
- AIAUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
- EELCAone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BDBIG DAY OF GIVINGone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Climate Action Reserve develops and implements trusted market-based programs to advance climate action for people and planet. A pioneer in carbon accounting, the Reserve promotes and fosters the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is The Falcon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 58 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nevada County Habitat For Humanity ↗
- Who funds AUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOW VISTA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLACER HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FALCON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds Solar Cookers International ↗
- Who funds PLACER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING INN ↗
- Who funds Colla Voce of the Sierra Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACER ARC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Caring Choices Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Auburn State Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PLACER ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds PLACER NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Placer Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation · The Arp Family Foundation · The George W Bauer Family Foundation · Armrod Charitable Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Dieter Family 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.