· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 - AMIGOS DE LA CRUZ DE HUANACAXTLE | $20,000 |
| BANDERAS BAY CHARITIES PEACE ANIMALS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Robert and Patricia Dahl Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +201% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Patricia Dahl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Patricia Dahl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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