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Dodge Family Fund
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| LEADING FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN | $45,000 |
| DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION | $45,000 |
| NATL ASSOC FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG C | $35,000 |
| IMPACT ON EDUCATION | $31,780 |
| WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING VENTURES | $30,000 |
| BULLYING RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NO COLORADO | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM | $24,000 |
| BRIGHT BEGINNINGS | $20,000 |
| WORLD FORUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WORLD FORUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Dodge Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- DADUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $273k · revenue +42%
- ELEARLY LEARNING VENTURES5× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +127%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM5× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue ×91 · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- ECEarly Childhood Council Boulder Couone grant, 2017 · $80k
- ECEarly Childhood Council of Boulderone grant, 2019 · $66k
- CSCOLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +671%
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.
Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.
The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.
We help children discover a way of dealing with life that is realistic, comfortable, and satisfying. Self-confidence is nurtured as children learn to rely on themselves and each other. The noncompetitive environment is one that allows each…
Seeds of Learning is a stand-alone, NAEYC accredited early care and education center, that serves children ages 30 months through age 5. As a community-based facility, Seeds offers parenting classes, educational opportunities for families…
The Learning Collaborative's mission is to instill children with curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning while embracing and strengthening their families. This is accomplished through tuition-free, high-quality Preschool and Pre-K…
The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…
To create extraordinary experiences that champion the wonder and joy of childhood.
Inside the Orchestra brings music to children cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through engaging interactive experience with orchestra music
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…
Wild Lilac Dev Community offers high quality, inclusive, culturally competent, accessible early childhood education,comprehensive family support, and educational opportunities for child development educators, social service professionals…
The Children's Center is committed to helping children of all backgrounds grow into enthusiastic, kind and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical and cognitive development. The…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leading for Children and the most unlike its peers is Dc Bilingual Public Charter School. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 57 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 DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING VENTURES ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BULLYING RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Sam S Bloom Foundation · Daniels Fund · McInnes S and J Char Tr · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado
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 Dodge Family Fund 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.
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Leading for Children — 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.
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