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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.

$502k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$898kEducation$740kHuman Services$560kHealth$361kYouth Development$165kEmployment$143kRecreation & Sports$114kFood & Nutrition$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADING FOR CHILDREN$50,000
ST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLS$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%Children's Friend and Service: $39k → 14%Inner County Outreach: $35k → 7%JOURNEYS - The Road Home: $5k → 14%JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%Bright by Three: $50k → 12%JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%Bright by Three: $50k → 12%Bright by Three: $30k → 12%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN: $45k → 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
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Dodge Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dodge Family Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$775k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DA
    DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $273k · revenue +42%
  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING VENTURES
    5× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +127%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM
    5× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue ×91 · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • EC
    Early Childhood Council Boulder Cou
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • EC
    Early Childhood Council of Boulder
    one grant, 2019 · $66k
  • CS
    COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +671%
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
Little Thinkers Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Hope Center Inc

The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.

Human Services
3
Linda Vista Children's Center

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…

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4
Seeds of Learning

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…

Education
5
The Learning Collaborative

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…

Education
6
The Rise School of Denver

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…

Education
7
The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc

To create extraordinary experiences that champion the wonder and joy of childhood.

Arts & Culture
8
Inside the Orchestra

Inside the Orchestra brings music to children cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through engaging interactive experience with orchestra music

Arts & Culture
9
Brightspark Early Learning Services

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…

Human Services
10
Little Beginnings Child Development Ctr

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…

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11
Wild Lilac Child Development Community

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…

Education
12
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens

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…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leading for Children; 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.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 57 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $120,000 · OtherWILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDRENStrive Leadership: $115,000 · OtherStrive LeadershipReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc: $114,300 · OtherReunion Sportive d'Haiti IncST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLS: $90,000 · OtherST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLSIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $81,780 · OtherIMPACT ON EDUCATION INCBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $80,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCEarly Childhood Council Boulder Cou: $80,000 · OtherEarly Childhood Council Boulder CouEarly Childhood Council of Boulder: $65,599 · OtherCOLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION: $50,000 · OtherDC Bilingual Charter School: $50,000 · OtherDC Association for Edcuation of You: $50,000 · OtherNY Early Childhood Prof Development: $50,000 · Other+19 more: $457,616 · Other+19 moreDUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC: $273,000 · Arts & CultureDUMBARTON ARTS AND EDU…FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM: $128,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LONGMON…WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $111,300 · Arts & CultureWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM …BOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER HISTORICAL SOC…CITYARTS INC: $29,725 · Arts & CultureMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationDIMENSIONS EDU…THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER: $78,810 · EducationTHE CHILD CARE…DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationDC BILINGUAL P…LEADING FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · EducationLEADING FOR CH…WORLD FORUM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationWORLD FORUM FO…BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC: $20,000 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $130,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEG…THE FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILI…NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL B…CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $39,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S…INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesINNER COUN…PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $15,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $210,000 · PhilanthropyKNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentCritical Exposure Inc: $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,404,295Arts & Culture$648,025Education$418,810Human Services$314,000Philanthropy$210,000Environment$210,000Youth Development$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC: $273,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $210,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $210,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $130,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT MUSEUM: $128,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc: $114,300 over 4y, 29% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $111,300 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $81,780 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER: $78,810 over 2y, 11% of budgetDC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCOLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLEADING FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBULLYING RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $39,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD FORUM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $29,725 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $28,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $24,082 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKid Pan Alley: $13,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Community Foundation …Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Sam S Bloom Found…Daniels FundMcInnes S and J Char …The Edmund T & Eleano…Early Milestones Colo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dodge Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Dodge Family Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 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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