· Private foundation
Dodson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUIS-DODSON SCHOLARSHIP AT ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL | $162,500 |
| US OLYMPIC COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WILKINSON CENTER | $75,000 |
| HAZELDON BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE | $75,000 |
| ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEGUE | $60,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $52,500 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| HAPPY EVER AFTER LEAGUE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 15 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k 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
- UFUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +57%
- HOHOME OF THE MOTHER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +117%
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +43%
- CSCollege Success Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +93%
- OHOAK HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT DICK ROCHE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is The Luisa Piccarreta Center for the Divine Will. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 170 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 UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OF THE MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · American Express Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Dodson 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% 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.