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Dm3 Fund
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRANSON SCHOOL | $104,914 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITV - M PETER FISCHER JUSTICE LAW FUND | $70,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS | $23,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE - FRIENDS OF TANG | $10,000 |
| MAVEN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA | $10,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $3,500 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | $2,500 |
| ONE TAM & GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- MPMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $369k · revenue +13%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +49%- TBTHE BRANSON SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $220k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- KCKREMPELS CENTER - KING CHALLENGE 2023one grant, 2023 · $8k
- KCKREMPELS CENTER - KING CHALLENGE 2021one grant, 2021 · $7k
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 mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
San Francisco Transit Riders is the city's rider-based grassroots advocate forworld-class transit. Together with our members we work for an excellent,affordable, and growing public transit system because it is essential to thecharacter and…
Usa cycling is the national governing body for cycling, making it responsible for the conduct and administration of cycling in the usa. the mission of usa cycling is to develop the sport of cycling in the united states at all levels and to…
Our mission is to broaden access to cycling as a primary means of safe, accessible, and sustainable transportation. our education programs and free resources empower youth & adults to get on and stay on bikes.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
Bike East Bay mobilizes by bike to build thriving communities that are joyful, safe, and inclusive.
The bridge project, inc. (the organization") is a non-profit organization that seeks to solve child poverty in the united states. launched in june 2021 by the monarch foundation, it is new york's first consistent unconditional cash…
To plan, promote and sustain a connected 550-mile hiking, cycling and equestrian trail on the ridge lines above the San Francisco Bay - linking people, parks and open spaces for today and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri and the most unlike its peers is The Bc Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 71 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 MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BRANSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MAVEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds KING RIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The BC Fund ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET 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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc
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 Dm3 Fund 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.
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 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.
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