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Douglass Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Douglass Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Douglass Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 54 organizations, $60k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $6,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $6,000 |
| KENSINGTON CONSERVATORY | $3,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $2,700 |
| HARRY AND EVA PUKSTA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CVNM | $2,000 |
| DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST | $2,000 |
| ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT | $1,600 |
| 350ORG | $1,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,300 |
| ADVENTURERS & SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION | $1,000 |
| AUDOBON WASHINGTON & SEWARD PARK | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| FIRST PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2021, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +27%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +98%- FOFriends of Central Algoma Land Trust5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +26%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
- FNFORTERRA NWone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -18%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Harry L and Eva J Puksta Foundation. 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 36 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 102 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Central Algoma Land Trust ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY L AND EVA J PUKSTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Ark Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Livingry Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Anchorum St Vincent · Brindle Foundation
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 Douglass Family 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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