· Private foundation
Robert and Patricia Dahl 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $66,667 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE | $30,000 |
| BANDERAS BAY CHARITIES PEACE ANIMALS | $20,000 |
| BANDERAS BAY CHARITIES - AMIGOS DE LA CRUZ DE HUANACAXTLE | $20,000 |
| NOR-CAL GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE | $15,000 |
| MEXICO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $13,800 |
| CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPUNTA DE MITA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OSCARS PLACE ADOPTION CENTER AND SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| BANDERAS BAY CHARITIES-PASITOS DE LUZ | $10,000 |
| GROWTH SECTOR COMPANY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOLSOM ZOO | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Robert and Patricia Dahl Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +201% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +145%
- NGNorcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +201%
- CCCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- AAANIMAL ASSIST AND RESCUE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
- VSVALLARTA SAILING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
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.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Provide a safe haven for needy animals, reduce population, and adopt homeless animals
We work in cooperation with humane organizations shelters and other groups interested in animal rescue. We rescue domestic animals and place them in nurturing foster homes. All animals are evaluated altered and vaccinated prior to…
The organization supports no kill animal shelters in particular Playa Animal House AC in Playa Del Carmen Mexico.
Crossing Guardians is a nonprofit animal rescue and charitable organization. The purpose of our organization is to save and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and homeless animals suffering and struggling to survive along the…
Angelitos Sanctuario rescues dogs, donkeys and other animals in the Central Mexico highlands where we adopt out strong candidates and provide permanent homes for the unadoptable and severely handicapped.
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and…
To provide sanctuary for dogs of the Boxer breed, both full and partial-bred; to educate the public on the importance of spaying or neutering; to provide instruction for proper pet care.
Wonder dog rescue was founded to rescue any animal at risk of euthanasia due to health or behavior issues. we rescue animals throughout northern and central california with a special focus on special needs and hospice animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BANDERAS BAY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER & SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PEACE ↗
- Who funds MEXICO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GROWTH SECTOR COMPANY ↗
- Who funds VALLARTA SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Robert and Patricia Dahl 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.
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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