California · Private foundation
Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2026
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $317k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 20% of the organizations Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 10 | $17k | 40% |
| FY2025 | 10 | $9k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $30k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $24k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $12k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $16k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $10k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $13k | 74% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Genealogical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Tahoe Fund | $15,100 | 4 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Piedmont Beautification Foundation | $5,250 | 3 | 2% |
| Sierra Watch | $4,950 | 7 | 0% |
| Piedmont Garden Club | $3,250 | 2 | 2% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Tahoe Maritime Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Tumor Institute | $1,700 | 4 | 0% |
| North Lake Tahoe Historical Society | $1,400 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation
- How much does Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation give?
- Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $17,024 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Health (29%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: California Genealogical Society ($25k), Tahoe Fund ($15k), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($11k).
- Does Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation based?
- Richard & Sherry Dumke Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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