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Dockser Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$167kPhilanthropy$64kHousing & Shelter$51kSocial Science$26kArts & Culture$22kHuman Services$15kYouth Development$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON$12,000
ALI FORNEY CENTER$5,000
FRIENDS OF HARVARD SOCCER$1,000
BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON$1,000
LILLIAN AND ALBERT SMALL CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $12k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $500 → 14%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 → 8%JACARANDA FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $180 → 8%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 20 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
44

Total granted

$313k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $153k · revenue +23%
  • TU
    THE ULI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +11%
  • BJ
    BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    2× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NU
    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -26%
  • MI
    MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · 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
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
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
4
International Life Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
5
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
6
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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7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
11
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

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'…

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12
Jews United for Justice Inc

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $152,500 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health+4 more: $3,780 · HealthGreenspace NCR: $45,000 · OtherGreenspace NCRBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON: $8,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGT…ADL: $7,500 · OtherADLDC SCORES: $6,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION: $5,000 · OtherSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $4,960 · Other+41 more: $33,145 · Other+41 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $61,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDER…+2 more: $1,700 · PhilanthropyTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Social ScienceWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,600 · InternationalMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $2,500 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSE: $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 · InternationalTHE MOMOKO ITO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · International+1 more: $180 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTRANSFORMER INC: $7,675 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $13,180 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 · Human ServicesJACARANDA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $500 · Human Services
Health$163,780Other$119,605Philanthropy$62,700Social Science$26,000International$19,880Arts & Culture$18,175Human Services$14,680

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 budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $152,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $61,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $13,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC: $7,675 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC SCORES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $4,960 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $2,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLO GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA GREEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda Chevy Chase High School PTSA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACARANDA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPERMAJORITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOLAR FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Medical Care Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…The Annette M Lerner …Bruce and Leslie Lane…George Wasserman Fami…Duber Family Foundati…Leo M Bernstein Famil…Greater Washington Co…Howard and Geraldine …Bender Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Jacob & Charlotte Leh…The Julius and Doroth…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 72 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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