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Dmb 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.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$47kEnvironment$9kArts & Culture$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$100
Median grant
8
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Westminster School$14,000
Southbury Land Trust$500
WAMU$500
WETA$500
Pets Bring Joy$300
Deep Creek Watershed Foundation$200
Nutrition Facts Org$200
Montessori School of N Virginia$200
Choral Arts Society of Washington$200
John F Kennedy Center$200
Seacamp Association Inc$100
Brightpaths$100
Parent Encouragement Program$100
Nature Conservancy$100
Capital Area Food Bank$100
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 (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Fairfax FISH: $500 → 6%Fairfax FISH: $500 → 6%Parent Encouragement Program: $300 → 8%Parent Encouragement Program: $300 → 8%Parent Encouragement Program: $300 → 8%Parent Encouragement Program: $300 → 8%Fairfax FISH: $500 → 6%Parent Encouragement Program: $100 → 8%Fairfax FISH: $500 → 6%Northern VA Family Service: $500 → 6%Northern VA Family Service: $500 → 6%Northern VA Family Service: $500 → 6%Northern VA Family Service: $500 → 6%Northern VA Family Service: $100 → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 62 repeat orgs$925 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
5

Total granted

$92k
$925

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-5%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WS
    Westminster School Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +35%
  • FH
    Flint Hill School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • SL
    SOUTHBURY LAND TRUST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300 · revenue -75%
  • CN
    Childrens National Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200
  • F
    FAIRVOTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue -5%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

—
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Putney Open Door Fund. 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

51 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. 51 of the 69 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Westminster School Inc: $25,500 · EducationWestminster School IncFlint Hill School: $9,500 · EducationFlint Hill SchoolTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $2,000 · Education+5 more: $3,500 · Education+5 moreWAMU: $2,500 · OtherWAMUColumbia College Fund: $2,000 · OtherColumbia College FundUVa Law School Foundation: $2,000 · OtherUVa Law School FoundationSOME INC: $1,700 · OtherSOME INCJohn F Kennedy Center: $1,400 · OtherJohn F Kennedy CenterIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · OtherWorld Food Programme: $1,000 · OtherGarrett Regional Medical Center: $900 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $900 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA …Nutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,000 · Other+21 more: $9,025 · Other+21 moreSOUTHBURY LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentDEEP CREEK WATERSHED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $900 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $900 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $800 · EnvironmentTHE POMPERAUG RIVER WATERSHED COALITION INC: $600 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $300 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $300 · EnvironmentGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $2,200 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $800 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $400 · Arts & CultureTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $900 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $900 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $800 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $600 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $600 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $600 · HealthNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,100 · Human ServicesFAIRFAX FISH: $2,000 · Human ServicesPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesPets Bring Joy: $2,300 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC: $700 · AnimalsLast Chance Animal Rescue Inc: $500 · Animals
Education$42,500Other$25,125Environment$7,300Arts & Culture$6,300Health$6,000Human Services$5,400Animals$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestminster School Inc: $25,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFlint Hill School: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHBURY LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPets Bring Joy: $2,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFAX FISH: $2,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOME INC: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $1,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP CREEK WATERSHED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POMPERAUG RIVER WATERSHED COALITION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANNANDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNEY OPEN DOOR FUND: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLast Chance Animal Rescue Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN HELPERSINC: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEACAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $200 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds Westminster School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Flint Hill School ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHBURY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Pets Bring Joy ↗
  • Who funds CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFAX FISH ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEEP CREEK WATERSHED FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗

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.

Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Greater Washington Co…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dmb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dmb 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 69 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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