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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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$140kReligion$62kArts & Culture$61kHealth$59kHuman Services$56kPhilanthropy$55kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 9%American Red Cross of Hawaii: $2k → 10%YMCA of Greater Boston: $2k → 16%St Lukes Community House: $625 → 14%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $2k → 16%Horizon House: $1k → 9%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $1k → 16%St Lukes Community House: $500 → 14%Horizon House: $1k → 9%Humane Borders Inc: $1k → 15%Humane Borders: $1k → 15%Humane Borders: $650 → 15%Humane Borders Inc: $636 → 15%Humane Borders: $570 → 15%University District Food Bank: $2k → 9%University District Food Bank: $2k → 9%University District Food Bank: $1k → 9%University District Food Bank: $1k → 9%University District Food Bank: $1k → 9%University District Food Bank: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$481k · 54 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
61

Total granted

$481k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SC
    Simpson College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +37%
  • MC
    MARYVILLE COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
  • CI
    CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +312%

Funded once

  • KC
    King's Chapel
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • GF
    GENEVA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • KC
    Kings Chapel MEMORIAL PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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
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
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
8
The George Washington University

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…

Education
9
Npr Foundation

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…

10
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
11
American Gas Association

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…

12
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

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Addiction Recovery ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/92
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,473

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

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/88
Grantees still filing
57/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA — $41,400 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAKing's Chapel — $14,417 · OtherKing's ChapelBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $10,635 · OtherGENEVA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherHoward Brown Health Center — $9,635 · Other+84 more — $126,687 · Other+84 moreSimpson College — $60,000 · EducationSimpson CollegeMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $60,000 · EducationMARYVILLE COLLEGEWellesley College — $8,300 · EducationWellesley College+7 more — $11,292 · Education+7 moreGENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES — $50,288 · PhilanthropyGENEVA FOUN…Old Pueblo Community Services — $4,500 · PhilanthropyOld Pueblo …+4 more — $4,350 · Philanthropy+4 moreCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION — $50,144 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA…CLASSICAL 981 — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $647 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $16,790 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $7,640 · Human ServicesHUMANE BORDERS INC — $4,186 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $4,071 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $3,025 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEET — $2,586 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $2,114 · Human ServicesHORIZON HOUSE — $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,125 · Human ServicesMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $14,150 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $13,234 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,450 · Health+8 more — $7,530 · HealthFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $23,410 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $1,500 · Food & NutritionPORT ANGELES FOOD BANK — $1,250 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Inc — $1,220 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $1,125 · Food & Nutrition
Other$212,774Education$139,592Philanthropy$59,138Arts & Culture$52,791Human Services$45,537Health$39,364Food & Nutrition$28,505

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 budgetSimpson College — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES — $50,288 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION — $50,144 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $23,410 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $16,790 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $14,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $13,234 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $10,635 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $9,635 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $8,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $7,640 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,770 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $5,424 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $4,540 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE BORDERS INC — $4,186 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $4,071 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $4,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FOUNDATION — $3,700 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $3,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,929 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET — $2,586 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $2,512 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL 981 — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $1,772 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,767 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANSEN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $1,400 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ANGELES FOOD BANK — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,236 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $1,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $1,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $1,074 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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.

Seattle FoundationWA22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Partakers Inc59% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp32% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 135 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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