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Dsk3 Family Foundation

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.

$809k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$21,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$292,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 20
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Dsk3 Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$769k60%
FY202314$863k43%
FY202215$638k47%
FY202114$434k36%
FY202017$649k29%
FY201920$994k65%
FY201810$446kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.7MYouth Development$774kCrime & Legal$500kFood & Nutrition$427kArts & Culture$426kHousing & Shelter$290kRecreation & Sports$163kHealth$115kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
TN
DC
LA
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Dsk3 Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation$668,00070%
I Have a Dream Foundation$530,000714%
The Emeril Lagasse Foundation$439,50068%
Adopt the Arts Foundation$389,885544%
Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation$275,43560%
Orangewood Foundation$197,64531%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$138,33410%
Gulf Coast Community Ministries Inc$135,000320%
Crime Survivors Inc Dba Crime Survivors Resource Center$95,00049%
Lutheran High School Association of Orange County$68,0001n/a
Villa Park Little League Inc$52,550437%
Inside Books Project$50,000133%
The Chicago Debate Commission$50,00015%
Special Olympics Inc$45,00020%
Orange County School of the Arts$40,00010%
Reach Up Reach Out$35,00024%
Life Restoration Network$35,00016%
Costa Mesa Police Foundation$30,0001n/a
Chicago Police Football Team$30,0001n/a
Mission Alive$25,000110%
United States Fund for Unicef$20,00010%
Orange County School of the Arts Foundation$15,00020%
Southern Methodist University$12,00010%
Orange County Police Canine Assoc$10,00024%
Down Syndrome Foundation$5,00015%
Brea Rotary Charitable Fund$5,000111%
Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dsk3 Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $668,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetI Have a Dream Foundation: $530,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetThe Emeril Lagasse Foundation: $439,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetAdopt the Arts Foundation: $389,885 over 5y, 44% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $275,435 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOrangewood Foundation: $197,645 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $138,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast Community Ministries Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCrime Survivors Inc Dba Crime Survivors Resource Center: $95,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetVilla Park Little League Inc: $52,550 over 4y, 37% of budgetInside Books Project: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetThe Chicago Debate Commission: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County School of the Arts: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReach Up Reach Out: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLife Restoration Network: $35,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMission Alive: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County School of the Arts Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Police Canine Assoc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDown Syndrome Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBrea Rotary Charitable Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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How do I get to Dsk3 Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dsk3 Family 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.

About Dsk3 Family Foundation

How much does Dsk3 Family Foundation give?
Dsk3 Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $809,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Dsk3 Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Youth Development (16%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are Dsk3 Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Colorado Foundation ($668k), I Have a Dream Foundation ($530k), The Emeril Lagasse Foundation ($440k).
Does Dsk3 Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dsk3 Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dsk3 Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Argyros Family Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Dsk3 Family Foundation based?
Dsk3 Family Foundation is based in CA.

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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