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Dodds Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$308k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182020.

Philanthropy$308kReligion$13kHealth$13kHuman Services$10kEducation$1kEmployment$750Recreation & Sports$500Crime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$76,971
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM AND TAMMY TODDS GIVING FUND - FIDELITY CHARITABLE #3379$76,971
MARGARET MARY CHARITABLE FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9176$76,971
DODDS FAMILY FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9155$76,971
DODDS FAMILY DONOR FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #3379$76,971
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORKING WARDROBES: $500 → 10%IMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY: $1k → 10%JACOBS AND CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $500 → 11%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES: $250 → 14%ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 18%REDWOODS MONASTERY: $900 → 18%CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $200 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $400 → 27%KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: $500 → 14%SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS: $4k → 13%DODDS FAMILY DONOR FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #3379: $77k → 13%WORKING WARDROBES: $250 → 10%SCHOOL OF THE MADELEINE: $500 → 10%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES: $250 → 14%ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 18%REDWOODS MONASTERY: $500 → 18%CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $200 → 17%SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS: $500 → 13%DODDS FAMILY FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9155: $77k → 13%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS HUNTINGTON BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 10%SCHOOL OF THE MADELEINE: $250 → 10%BEACON HOUSE OF ASSN OF SAN PEDRO: $250 → 14%MARGARET MARY CHARITABLE FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9176: $77k → 13%CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN: $150 → 10%USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $250 → 14%FRIENDS OF TUOLOMNE CAMP: $300 → 10%BEACON HOUSE ASSN OF SAN PEDRO: $250 → 14%FRIENDS OF TUOLUMNE CAMP: $200 → 10%THE TREVOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $500 → 10%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $11k → 14%DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $400 → 10%CASA FRANCISCA: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15k · 9 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$15k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+195%

Still filing today

44%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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

  • SJ
    ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k
  • RA
    REDWOODS ABBEY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k

Funded once

  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CASA FRANCISCA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • IH
    IMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +195%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
3
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
4
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
Citizens Commission On Human Rights

The citizens commission on human rights (cchr) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. we work to ensure patient and…

International
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
10
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

11
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Constitutional Rights and the most unlike its peers is Working Wardrobes for a New Start. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILLIAM AND TAMMY TODDS GIVING FUND - FIDELITY CHARITABLE #3379 — $76,971 · OtherWILLIAM AND TAMMY TODDS GIVING FUND - FIDELITY CHARITABLE #3379DODDS FAMILY DONOR FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #3379 — $76,971 · OtherDODDS FAMILY DONOR FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #3379MARGARET MARY CHARITABLE FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9176 — $76,971 · OtherMARGARET MARY CHARITABLE FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9176DODDS FAMILY FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9155 — $76,971 · OtherDODDS FAMILY FUND - AMERICAN ENDOWMENT #9155+14 more — $25,850 · Other+14 morePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $11,000 · HealthTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO — $500 · HealthTREVOR PROJECT INC — $500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $400 · Civil RightsWorking Wardrobes For A New Start — $750 · EmploymentJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $500 · Food & NutritionKIND INC — $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$333,734Health$11,500Civil Rights$900Employment$750Food & Nutrition$500Crime & Legal$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds IMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY
  • Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds KIND INC
  • Who funds THE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Dodds Family Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dodds Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dodds Family Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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