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.

Dume Wolverine Foundation

Dume Wolverine Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$875k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.4MInternational$1.3MHealth$1.0MCivil Rights$270kScience & Tech$250kPublic Benefit$245kFood & Nutrition$221kYouth Development$160kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $29k
$10k–50k14 grants · $200k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$250k+1 grant · $875k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Howard University	$875,000
Valley Presbyterian Hospital Foundation	$75,000
A child's Notebook	$30,000
Apapo USA	$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION	$20,000
A WELL FED WORLD	$20,000
BEREA COLLEGE	$20,000
UNIV OF ROCHESTER SCH OF MEDICINE	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Capital B News	$10,000
Rancho Los Amigos Foundation	$10,000
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance	$10,000
FONKOZE USA	$10,000
HOA AINA O MAKAHA	$10,000
MADRE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.3M · 45 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.3M

$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+34%

Still filing today

73%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationAnimalsHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
3× · 2023–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +13%
BEREA COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +50%
OXFAM-AMERICA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +8%

Funded once

AF
American Floral Endowmentgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +84%
UO
UNIV OF ROCHESTER SCH OF MEDIC
one grant, 2021 · $75k
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +51%

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.

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treepeople Inc; the most unlike its peers is Task Force Butler Institute. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/56

Grantees still filing

42/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,272,012Other$2,547,850International$1,321,496Youth Development$235,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Health$201,800Arts & Culture$150,000

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

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.

A&J Kay Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home