· Private foundation
Dobbins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Dobbins Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Dobbins Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM (PEACE AND JUSTICE COALITION EARMARKED FOR A | $2,000 |
| WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LIFT-UP | $2,000 |
| STAR-C PROGRAMS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| GREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,200 |
| LORD OF THE STREETS OUTREACH | $1,030 |
| HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRY (HAAM) | $1,030 |
| CANOPY ATLANTA | $1,000 |
| GEORGIA STAND-UP | $1,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE BRICK COMPANY DESCENDANTS COALITION | $1,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $1,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $1,000 |
| ECONOMIC LITERACY COLORADO (FORMERLY COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| POLICING ALTERNATIVES AND DIVERSION INITIATIVES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Dobbins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +52% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 40 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +74%
- PFPARTNERS FOR HOME INC4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue ×16
- GSGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- ANATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +76%- AFAmerican Friends Serviceone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 88 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 COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Strategic Alliance for New ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds West Atlanta Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds UJIMA WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dobbins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dobbins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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