· Private foundation
Horace Dawson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes | $10,000 |
| Simpson College | $10,000 |
| Presbyterian Church (USA) | $10,000 |
| Chautauqua Institution | $10,000 |
| Maryville College | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $6,200 |
| Wellesley College | $5,300 |
| YWCA Seattle King Snohomish | $3,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Boston | $2,114 |
| GiveDirectly | $2,046 |
| Sky Island Alliance | $2,030 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | $2,000 |
| YMCA of the East Bay - Irving Deutscher | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of America | $1,660 |
| Winter Nights Family Shelter | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSimpson College6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +37%
- MCMARYVILLE COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- KCKing's Chapelone grant, 2023 · $14k
- GFGENEVA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKings Chapel MEMORIAL PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
88 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. 88 of the 135 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · New Venture Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Horace Dawson 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.
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.