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Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund at a glance

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Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$39MHealth$27MPublic Benefit$8.4MSocial Science$8.1MArts & Culture$5.8MEducation$3.2MInternational$3.2MCivil Rights$964kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,175,045
Median grant
2
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$1,291,700
ZUCKERBERG SF GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,175,045
BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $638k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THORN - DIGITAL DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN: $205k → 17%LA LUZ CENTER: $10k → 9%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $50k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $20k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $103k → 10%ANNIECANNONS INC: $50k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $50k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $25k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $100k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
DE
AZ
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48M · 54 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
53

Total granted

$48M
$9.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+37%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KF
    KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +26%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
  • GA
    Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $2.4M · revenue +18%
  • ZS
    ZUCKERBERG SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.6M
  • SV
    SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -85%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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8
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Democracy Project; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 113 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/90
Grantees still filing
66/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,332,237 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $2,376,836 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY+2 more: $163,039 · PhilanthropyGLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $12,175,885 · OtherGLADSTONE INSTITUTESBARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION: $6,129,577 · OtherBARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $3,168,300 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONTHE REGENTS OF UCSF: $1,891,860 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF UCSFZUCKERBERG SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,561,575 · OtherZUCKERBERG SF GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,175,045 · Other+55 more: $6,783,908 · Other+55 moreKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $3,471,373 · HealthKAISER FO…Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation Inc: $1,500,000 · HealthGlobal Al…SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,047,520 · HealthSONOMA VA…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthALZHEIMER…SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $424,800 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $300,000 · Health+6 more: $688,318 · Health+6 moreKQED INC: $2,070,525 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2,053,229 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $275,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $245,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $660,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $4,362,710 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $264,855 · Education+10 more: $700,314 · EducationUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $150,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $150,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $103,039 · International+3 more: $100,000 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,257,656 · Social Science
Philanthropy$40,872,112Other$32,886,150Health$8,432,011Arts & Culture$7,303,754Education$5,327,879International$1,853,039Social Science$1,257,656

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,332,237 over 3y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $4,362,710 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $3,471,373 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $2,376,836 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetKQED INC: $2,070,525 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2,053,229 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Alzheimer's Platform Foundation Inc: $1,500,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,257,656 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,047,520 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL: $1,010,960 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $454,855 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $424,800 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $409,468 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $300,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $275,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $264,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSundance Institute: $245,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHORN: $204,855 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDAVOS ALZHEIMER'S COLLABORATIVE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetON LOK SENIOR HEALTH SERVICES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Commission on the Status of Women: $150,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $113,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $103,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $103,039 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $102,795 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $70,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetISSUE ONE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Swig FoundationThe Chicago Community…The California Wellne…Sutter Bay HospitalsTipping Point Communi…The William & Flora H…Stupski Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA57.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Swig Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The California Wellness Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Tipping Point Community · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Stupski Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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