· Private foundation
Dockser Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $12,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $5,000 |
| LILLIAN AND ALBERT SMALL CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARVARD SOCCER | $1,000 |
| BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $1,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH ISRAEL EMERGING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TRANSFORMER DC | $1,000 |
| BETHESDA CHEVY CHASE - PTSA | $500 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS FOUNDATION INC | $180 |
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 (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SHSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $153k · revenue +23%
- TUTHE ULI FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +11%
- BJBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON2× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -26%
- NUNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -2%
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 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…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Momoko Ito 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 72 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 SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Greenspace NCR ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CONSENSUS ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLO GOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOMOKO ITO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bruce and Leslie Lane Foundation Inc · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Duber Family Foundation · Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation · The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus Foundation Inc
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 Dockser Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% 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.