California · Private foundation
Dume Wolverine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $875,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Dume Wolverine Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.3M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $988k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $722k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $711k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $723k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $656k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Howard University | $2,637,012 | 3 | 0% |
| Valley Presbyterian Hospital Foundation | $545,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Berea College | $425,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $405,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $313,896 | 9 | 0% |
| A Well-Fed World | $210,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Madre Inc | $200,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indian Pueblo Cultural Center | $130,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($872k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dume Wolverine Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: A&J Kay Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · California Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dume Wolverine Foundation
- How much does Dume Wolverine Foundation give?
- Dume Wolverine Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,178,704 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dume Wolverine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), International (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are Dume Wolverine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Howard University ($2.6M), Valley Presbyterian Hospital Foundation ($545k), Berea College ($425k).
- Does Dume Wolverine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dume Wolverine 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 Dume Wolverine Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A&J Kay Family Foundation, Seattle Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Dume Wolverine Foundation based?
- Dume Wolverine Foundation is based in CA.
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