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The Dmk 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $825k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEANA | $200,000 |
| WILD SALMON CENTER | $175,000 |
| DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE CHARITABLE TR | $100,000 |
| OCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP | $50,000 |
| BODYTRAFFIC | $50,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND (FKA THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA) | $25,000 |
| LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
WILD SALMON CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +166%- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +8%
- EWENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TATHE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -51%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -40%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Caa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 50 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 WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BODY TRAFFIC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEUROVASCULAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dmk 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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