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Dyer Family 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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$469kEnvironment$240kEducation$232kRecreation & Sports$117kPublic Benefit$113kYouth Development$98kHuman Services$97kCommunity Improvement$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF FOLSOM PARKWAYS$50,000
FRESNO SHERIFF'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$40,000
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST$30,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$15,000
SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$15,000
LINDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER CLUB$10,000
STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
PINE RIDGE BOOSTER$8,000
QUAIL LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB$6,000
PINC - PHILANTHROPY INSPIRED BY NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY$5,000
MINAS VS CANCER$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DNA DOE PROJECT: $25k → 9%DNA DOE PROJECT: $20k → 9%DNA DOE PROJECT: $20k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 9%MARJAAREE MASON CENTER INC: $5k → 19%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER: $6k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$1.3M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+18%

Still filing today

72%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SJ
    SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $115k · revenue +16%
  • FP
    FLYING PANTHERS FLIGHT SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +61% · 51% of their budget
  • VC
    VALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $91k · revenue +287%

Funded once

  • PP
    PINC - PHILANTHROPY INSPIRED
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • WI
    WEAVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +47%
  • FR
    FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +137%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
2
Volunteers for Outdoor California

Purpose is to engage in charitable, scientific, literary, and educational programs and activities, which motivate and enable people to be active stewards of California's public and protected lands and environment.

Recreation & Sports
3
Friends of Camp Sacramento

Friends of Camp Sacramento (FOCS) is a nonprofit organization that strengthens families, builds community, and connects people to nature through the experience of camping. FOCS meets this mission by supporting the operations and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment
5
Sacramento Police Canine Association

Care for retired police canine dogs.

Animals
6
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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7
Fresno County Sheriffs Search and Rescue Mountaineering Team Inc

To provide highly skilled and dedicated volunteers to assist the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and other agencies requesting mutual aid in search and rescue operations.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Friends of the Calaveras Sheriffs Office

The mission of the Friends of the Calaveras Sheriff's Office (FOCSO) is to support the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office by providing funds for programs, projects, and equipment through events, fundraising, networking, and donations from…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Friends of the Folsom Zoo Inc

Promote welfare of animals housed at folsom city zoo sanctuary by funding enclosures and exhibit improvements, promoting behavioral enrichment & special needs of the animals. to increase public awareness of the zoo sanctuary by suporting…

Animals
10
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

—
11
California Rescue Dog Association

Train, certify and deploy highly qualified search dog teams to assist law enforcement and other public safety agencies in the search for lost and missing persons.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Friends of Mariposa County Sheriffs Search and Rescue

To provide support for search and rescue activities of mariposa county search and rescue.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central California Adaptive Sports Center and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%9%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%10%<5yr16%19%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%13%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
15%
11,899/80,081

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF FOLSOM PARKWAYS — $90,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FOLSOM PARKWAYSGIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA — $74,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIALEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — $53,500 · OtherLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETYLA COMIDA GUILD — $50,550 · OtherLA COMIDA GUILDSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION — $50,000 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATIONPINC - PHILANTHROPY INSPIRED — $35,000 · OtherWEAVE INC — $27,000 · OtherFRESNO IDEAWORKS — $44,000 · OtherFRESNO IDEAWORKSGreater Shaver Lake Visitors Bureau — $48,500 · OtherGreater Shaver Lake Visitors BureauHuntington State Beach Junior Lifeguard Association — $31,000 · Other+17 more — $175,000 · Other+17 moreVALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $90,750 · HealthVALLEY CENTER FOR TH…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $82,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …TRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthTRIUMPH CANCER FOUND…RESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNO — $32,500 · HealthRESILIENCY CENTER OF…+1 more — $4,000 · HealthFLYING PANTHERS FLIGHT SCHOOL INC — $110,000 · EducationFLYING PANTHE…QUAIL LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $67,200 · EducationQUAIL LAKE CH…LINDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST — $115,000 · EnvironmentSAN JOAQUI…SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH COAS…Tree Fresno — $15,000 · EnvironmentTree Fresn…FRESNO SHERIFFS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $23,000 · Public BenefitDNA DOE PROJECT — $65,250 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER — $6,000 · Human ServicesMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCAMP TAYLOR INC — $60,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Youth Development
Other$678,550Health$289,250Education$192,200Environment$150,000Public Benefit$113,000Human Services$86,250Youth Development$74,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST — $115,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFLYING PANTHERS FLIGHT SCHOOL INC — $110,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetVALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $90,750 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFRESNO SHERIFFS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $82,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetQUAIL LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $67,200 over 6y, 34% of budgetDNA DOE PROJECT — $65,250 over 3y, 32% of budgetCAMP TAYLOR INC — $60,750 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetLA COMIDA GUILD — $50,550 over 5y, 12% of budgetGreater Shaver Lake Visitors Bureau — $48,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetFRESNO IDEAWORKS — $44,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetRESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNO — $32,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWEAVE INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTree Fresno — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPTA-CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS — $14,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT — $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPine Ridge Booster — $8,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFOLSOM ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $7,750 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMarysville Joint Unified School Dis Education Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS PROJECT FOR CANINE COMPANIONS — $4,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetZACHARY HORTON FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAquarius Aquarium Institute — $4,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetScooters Pals — $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Richard & Althea …The Edward M and Jean…The Gap FoundationAetna Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dyer Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dyer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dyer 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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