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The Dobranski Foundation Inc

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.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,030
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$329k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Dobranski Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$73k25%
FY202415$13k47%
FY202313$15k31%
FY20227$15k14%
FY202112$16k42%
FY20208$13k63%
FY20194$15k25%
FY201811$27k73%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$82kArts & Culture$80kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$12kReligion$3kHuman Services$1kEnvironment$1kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
MD
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lowell School$62,22590%
Inner Loop Inc$59,04151%
Washington Humane Society$16,43060%
Yale University$9,7886n/a
Cornell University$7,60060%
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc$5,00010%
Pen Faulkner Foundation$4,33130%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$4,05740%
Rorschach Theatre$3,19030%
Yale University$2,5002n/a
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All grantees of The Dobranski Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lowell School$62,22590%
Inner Loop Inc$59,04151%
Washington Humane Society$16,43060%
Yale University$9,7886n/a
Cornell University$7,60060%
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc$5,00010%
Pen Faulkner Foundation$4,33130%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$4,05740%
Rorschach Theatre$3,19030%
Yale University$2,5002n/a
The Writers Center$1,16750%
Life Source Inc$1,0001n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$1,00010%
Parent Encouragement Program Inc$51510%
Avalon Theatre Project Inc$50010%
Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc$50010%
Worldbuilders Inc$47310%
Harmonic Music Foundation$25610%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$25010%
National Links Trust$25010%
Van Ness Group Inc$21120%
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens$17020%
The Phillips Collection$15010%
Xerces Society Inc$3510%
Science Spark$2010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dobranski Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLowell School: $62,225 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInner Loop Inc: $59,041 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWashington Humane Society: $16,430 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $7,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPen Faulkner Foundation: $4,331 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $4,057 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRorschach Theatre: $3,190 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Writers Center: $1,167 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParent Encouragement Program Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAvalon Theatre Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorldbuilders Inc: $473 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmonic Music Foundation: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Links Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVan Ness Group Inc: $211 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillwood Estate Museum & Gardens: $170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScience Spark: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Dobranski Foundation Inc

How much does The Dobranski Foundation Inc give?
The Dobranski Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $73,269 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Dobranski Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (38%), Animals (13%).
Who are The Dobranski Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lowell School ($62k), Inner Loop Inc ($59k), Washington Humane Society ($16k).
Does The Dobranski Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dobranski Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dobranski Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Nora Roberts Foundation, Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Dobranski Foundation Inc based?
The Dobranski Foundation Inc is based in DC.

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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