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Dwss Inc

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.

$508k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$684kPhilanthropy$643kEnvironment$470kInternational$430kEducation$67kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Benefit$40kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $404k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL$165,075
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$139,224
MAD IN AMERICA FOUNDATION$100,000
STONE BARNS RESTORATION CORP$40,000
CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE$26,070
SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC$25,000
PUTNAM FOUNDATION$9,500
CONFLUENCE$3,000
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 (FY22–22, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $47k → 11%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

AK
NH
NY
MA
CA
MD
NM
NC
DC
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-5%

Still filing today

62%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • IS
    IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $305k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $161k · revenue +208%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $141k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • The Ocean Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue -29%
  • NE
    NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERINC
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -5%
  • PE
    Praising Earth Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -40%
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Commons Impact Foundation
Philanthropy
5
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
6
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
7
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
8
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Sentinel Research

We help the public by foreseeing and reacting to globally impactful and existential catastrophes. We forecast near-term risks, detect black swans earlier, and deploy our emergency response team to take mitigating action.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
12
Sustainable World Inc

See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Markets Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Putnam Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $633,251 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMAD IN AMERICA FOUNDATION: $480,000 · HealthMAD IN AMERICA FOUNDAT…IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL: $305,075 · InternationalIMPACT SOCIETY GLOB…THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS INSTIT…CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC: $161,132 · EnvironmentCREO FAMILY OFFICE …SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $141,130 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS…The Ocean Foundation: $55,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundatio…Ten Strands: $52,023 · EnvironmentTen Strands+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH: $157,300 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR E…WORKING FILMS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherWORKING FILMS FO…CONFLUENCE: $17,000 · OtherSAQ BE ORGANIZATION FOR MAYAN AND INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL STUDIES: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERINC: $46,500 · OtherNATIONAL EMPOWER…CHOOSE LOVE INC: $40,000 · OtherCHOOSE LOVE INCGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $21,450 · OtherGRASSROOT SOCCER…+4 more: $27,700 · Other+4 moreStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePraising Earth Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $60,000 · Education
Philanthropy$633,251Health$480,000International$430,075Environment$419,285Other$349,950Arts & Culture$95,000Education$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $633,251 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAD IN AMERICA FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetIMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL: $305,075 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC: $161,132 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $141,130 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTen Strands: $52,023 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERINC: $46,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPraising Earth Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $21,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUTNAM FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IMPACT SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

New Venture FundJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Venture FundDC12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 62%
  • National Empowerment Centerinc: 62% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Dwss Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dwss Inc 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 23 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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