· Public charity
Dressember Foundation
to equip a community of people to advocate for the dignity of all people, leading to the protection and freedom of millions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $1,151,017 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,292,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,431 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Justice Mission | $1,059,517 |
| The A21 Campaign Inc | $35,000 |
| ECPAT-USA Inc | $10,000 |
| Love146 | $7,500 |
| The Freedom Story | $6,500 |
| Everfree | $6,500 |
| Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc | $6,500 |
| Youthspark Inc | $6,500 |
| Truckers Against Trafficking | $6,500 |
| Coalition to Abolish Slavery | $6,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $858k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION7× · 2018–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +88%
- TATHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +35%
- CTCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING6× · 2019–2024 · $279k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- 1T10 THOUSAND WINDOWS INCone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -74%
- RHRADIANT HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +72% · 29% of their budget
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.
The mission of the organization is to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls worldwide. it promotes the human rights of women and girls by working internationally to combat commercial sexual exploitation in all its…
Prevention now leverages data and technology to stop human trafficking before it starts.
Freed Life exists to eradicate human trafficking through empowering survivors, equipping communities and changing systems.
Our rescue works collaboratively with law enforcement agencies worldwide to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers. we provide compassionate care for our survivors, beginning with crisis relief and ending months or years later with…
To glorify god by bringing hope to victims of sexual exploitation, empowering them to live free, and ultimately abolishing sex trafficking.
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
The mission of love justice international is driving the downfall of slavery by disrupting human trafficking in transit.
Jvis mission is to bring freedom, justice, and restoration to men, women, and children suffering from human trafficking and other extreme injustice by partnering with local organizations and global stakeholders.
To prevent sex slavery by changing the world view of affected communities and to liberate those already enslaved by providing safe environments for healing, and business opportunities that lead to full and transformed lives.
Human Rights Organization
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Innocence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 24 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 INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds AnnieCannons Inc ↗
- Who funds Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds MCMAHONRYAN CHILD ADVOCACY SITE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds youthSpark Inc ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Story ↗
- Who funds Willow International Everfree ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds ECPAT-USA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM NETWORK USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds Starfish Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds 10 THOUSAND WINDOWS INC ↗
- Who funds RADIANT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE 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: Rescue- Freedom International · Human Investment Foundation · Novo Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good
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 Dressember 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 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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