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The Dg Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of The Dg Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Dg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $273k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k23 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHIDBEY-CAMANO LAND TRUST | $45,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - KING COUNTY | $30,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $25,000 |
| UC BERKELEY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST | $10,000 |
| CHILDHAVEN | $7,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $7,500 |
| DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTER | $6,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those 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.
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 +139% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WCWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST2× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +139%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - KING COUNTY2× · 2017–2019 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2019 · $55k
Funded once
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +27%
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -19%
- UBUC BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hand of South Whidbey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds Downtown Emergency Service Center ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND OF SOUTH WHIDBEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NW Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Dg 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
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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