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The Dimassa Family Foundation at a glance

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The Dimassa Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$13kArts & Culture$12kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kSocial Science$9kInternational$9kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IAMLA$6,007
DOOR OF HOPE$1,500
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$1,500
PROVIDENCE HOLY CROSS MEDICAL$1,500
GIVE WELL$1,500
SOSA$1,500
TREE PEOPLE LAND TR$200
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 (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%MIRY'S LIST: $2k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
DC
MS
AL
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 7 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
29

Total granted

$38k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +369%
  • EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER
    2× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +138%
  • DS
    DEEP SOUTH TODAY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMER RED CROSS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SS
    SEQUOYAH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +28%
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
5
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
12
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cool Earth Action Usa Inc. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOOR OF HOPE: $10,500 · OtherDOOR OF HOPEAMER RED CROSS: $10,000 · OtherAMER RED CROSSIAMLA: $8,507 · OtherIAMLAPROVIDENCE HOLY CROSS MEDICAL: $6,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOLY CROSS MEDICALPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSEQUOYAH SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherSEQUOYAH SCHOOLPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $2,500 · OtherYOUNG HEALTHY: $2,500 · Other+17 more: $21,450 · Other+17 moreDEEP SOUTH TODAY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDEEP SOUTH…NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL T…LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST…PRO PUBLICA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLIC…PATH: $2,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $1,000 · InternationalMIRY'S LIST: $2,000 · Human ServicesWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOOL EARTH ACTION USA INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $3,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$69,457Arts & Culture$9,000International$5,000Human Services$4,000Environment$3,500Health$3,000Crime & Legal$3,000

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 budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SOUTH TODAY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL EARTH ACTION USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRY'S LIST: $2,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOFFEE WITH A CAUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOCCER CLUB: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Dimassa Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dimassa Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 40 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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