· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $3,000 |
| CHABAD OF SAN FRANCISCO | $3,000 |
| HARVEST | $3,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $2,500 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW | $2,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CLUB - CALIFORNIA | $1,050 |
| CAPITOLA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| GORDON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMISSION ON NATL | $1,000 |
| CAMP GAN ISREAL SF | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SNSECOND NURTUREone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
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The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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How this is measured
84 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. 84 of the 131 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMISSION ON NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- 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 ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter L Dwares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter L Dwares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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