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Peter L Dwares 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $4,000 |
| HARVEST | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $3,000 |
| CHABAD OF SAN FRANCISCO | $3,000 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW | $2,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CLUB - CALIFORNIA | $1,050 |
| CAMP GAN ISREAL SF | $1,000 |
| GORDON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO ADVOCACY | $1,000 |
| CAPITOLA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +19%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +25%
- PRPacific Research Institute For Public Policy5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +36%
Funded once
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +8%- TUTRUSTEES UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA THE PENN FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -21%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Arthur and Charlotte Zitrin Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 131 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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Gordon School ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ GARDENS HOME & SCHOOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMISSION ON NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Value Culture ↗
- Who funds HATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Perkins Hunter Foundation · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation
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 Peter L Dwares 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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