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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE - FRIENDS OF TANG | $10,000 |
| MAVEN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA | $10,000 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $3,500 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $3,000 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS | $2,500 |
| ONE TAM & GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | $2,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 71 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.
- 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 RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET INC ↗
- Who funds KING RIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The BC Fund ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dm3 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dm3 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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