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Dressember Foundation

to equip a community of people to advocate for the dignity of all people, leading to the protection and freedom of millions.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

International$9.1MHuman Services$765kCivil Rights$359kCrime & Legal$314kHealth$251kEmployment$190kEducation$123k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,151,017, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,292,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,431 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$6,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Coalition to Abolish Slavery$6,500
Truckers Against Trafficking$6,500
Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc$6,500
Youthspark Inc$6,500
Everfree$6,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Willow International: $25k → 10%AnnieCannons Inc: $45k → 10%AnnieCannons: $100k → 14%Restore NYC: $35k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $40k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $33k → 13%Starfish Project: $23k → 13%Businesses Ending Slavery: $40k → 9%Willow International: $10k → 10%Restore NYC: $33k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $37k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $33k → 13%Starfish Project: $23k → 13%Businesses Ending Slavery: $37k → 9%Restore NYC: $33k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $20k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $20k → 13%Businesses Ending Slavery: $30k → 9%Restore NYC: $15k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $20k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $20k → 13%Businesses Ending Slavery: $20k → 9%Restore NYC: $10k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $15k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $10k → 13%Businesses Ending Slavery: $15k → 9%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $7k → 17%Youthspark Inc: $7k → 13%Thorn: $35k → 14%Thorn: $20k → 14%Everfree: $45k → 10%Everfree: $7k → 10%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

ME
WA
WI
NY
IN
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 22 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$11M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
-74%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalHealthEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +88%
  • TA
    THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +35%
  • CT
    COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING
    6× · 2019–2024 · $279k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • 1T
    10 THOUSAND WINDOWS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -74%
  • RH
    RADIANT HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -94% · 29% of their budget
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
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
2
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

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…

International
3
Prevention Now Inc

Prevention now leverages data and technology to stop human trafficking before it starts.

Human Services
4
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
5
Trafficking in America Task Force Inc

Human Rights Organization

Human Services
6
Mukti International

Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…

Crime & Legal
7
Love Justice International

The mission of love justice international is driving the downfall of slavery by disrupting human trafficking in transit.

International
8
Justice Ventures International

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.

International
9
True Justice International Inc

To exeucte true justice on a global scale in order to promote the restoration of humanity with mercy and compassion through strategic initiatives that focus on the

Human Services
10
Hope for Justice Inc

Hope for Justice is a human-rights based organization committed to supporting the complex needs of victims and survivors of human trafficking, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Our mission at Hope for Justice is bringing…

Human Services
11
Our Rescue

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…

Arts & Culture
12
National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance

The National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance is a network of service providers committed to enhancing services and increasing access to care for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Network Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Radiant Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $6,950,144 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION+3 more: $168,114 · InternationalTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $1,970,500 · OtherTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INCKarana Rising: $80,000 · Other+1 more: $22,500 · OtherAnnieCannons Inc: $145,000 · Human ServicesAnnieCann…Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking: $141,270 · Human ServicesBusinesse…PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $138,000 · Human ServicesPATHFINDE…RESTORE NYC INC: $125,500 · Human ServicesRESTORE N…youthSpark Inc: $121,500 · Human ServicesyouthSpar…Willow International Everfree: $86,500 · Human ServicesWillow In…THORN: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHORNFREEDOM NETWORK USA INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Project Incorporated: $45,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $279,000 · Crime & LegalLOVE146 INC: $256,500 · Crime & LegalTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $57,388 · Crime & LegalOLIVE CREST: $127,500 · HealthMCMAHONRYAN CHILD ADVOCACY SITE INC: $123,000 · HealthTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $123,000 · EducationThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $45,000 · Employment
International$7,118,258Other$2,073,000Human Services$922,770Crime & Legal$592,888Health$250,500Education$123,000Employment$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $6,950,144 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $1,970,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $279,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $256,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAnnieCannons Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking: $141,270 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $138,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $127,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC: $125,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMCMAHONRYAN CHILD ADVOCACY SITE INC: $123,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $123,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetyouthSpark Inc: $121,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetThe Freedom Story: $93,114 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWillow International Everfree: $86,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $57,388 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHORN: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetECPAT-USA INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM NETWORK USA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetStarfish Project Incorporated: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRADIANT HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

Rescue- Freedom Inter…Human Investment Foun…Novo FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Boston Foundation IncServant FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Network for Good
Rescue- Freedom InternationalWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Dressember Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dressember Foundation 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 24 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 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home