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The Dolotta Family Charitable 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.

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$124k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$648kPhilanthropy$357kEnvironment$222kHealth$212kHuman Services$193kHousing & Shelter$148kArts & Culture$145kFood & Nutrition$113kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $124k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAFGIVING360$124,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$25,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$25,000
THE WOODEN FLOOR$20,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$15,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY$15,000
HAV A SOLE$15,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$10,000
LA FOODBANK$10,000
FRIENDS OF FIELDWORKERS INC$10,000
THE FROSTIG CENTER$10,000
RESILIENT PALISADES$10,000
RECOVERY SHOT$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RECOVERY SHOT: $10k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $5k → 17%FREEDOM READS: $5k → 12%CCAI: $5k → 8%RECOVERY SHOT: $10k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%FREEDOM READS: $5k → 12%CCAI: $5k → 8%RECOVERY SHOT: $5k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%FREEDOM READS: $5k → 12%CCAI: $5k → 8%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%CCAI: $3k → 8%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%CCAI: $3k → 8%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%CCAI: $2k → 8%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $2k → 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $5k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $5k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $5k → 14%PATH: $4k → 14%PATH: $4k → 14%PATH: $2k → 14%THE LANGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE LANGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE LANGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMAN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 14%IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMAN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 87 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

87 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
45

Total granted

$1.7M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+34%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +206%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +83%
  • NY
    NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MI
    MERISTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • AF
    ACLU FOUNDATION OF NJ
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
5
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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6
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
9
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
10
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement and the most unlike its peers is Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and Rehabilit…Community Service ClubsYouth Sports & Recreation C…Family Philanthropic Founda…Arts & Performance Organiza…Cultural and Community Pres…Alternative Education Progr…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%48%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/120
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,858

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.

04the grantee network

119 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. 119 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/119
Grantees still filing
81/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $126,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER F…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $107,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $107,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…SAGE HILL SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationSAGE HILL SCHOOLMONTESSORI CENTER SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA — $34,300 · EducationMONTESSORI CENTER SCHOOL O…Washington School Parent Teacher Organization & Foundation Inc — $33,000 · EducationWashington School Parent T…University of Chicago — $25,000 · EducationMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY — $25,000 · EducationPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $21,000 · Education+10 more — $48,450 · Education+10 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY — $80,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE …Individual grant recipient — $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherUNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $35,250 · OtherLA FOODBANK — $35,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION — $29,000 · OtherHav A Sole — $55,000 · OtherHav A SoleNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $56,500 · OtherNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY+66 more — $426,350 · Other+66 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $289,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED C…Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc — $16,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $21,500 · Philanthropy+5 morePATH — $40,000 · Human ServicesPATHDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN W…RECOVERY SHOT — $26,000 · Human ServicesRECOVERY S…CCAI — $23,000 · Human ServicesCCAIIMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $20,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRATIO…COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT H…FREEDOM READS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RE…LANGE FOUNDATION — $13,500 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUN…ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA — $10,750 · Human Services+10 more — $22,200 · Human Services+10 moreHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $46,000 · EnvironmentOrange County Coastkeeper — $40,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAY — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $12,000 · EnvironmentRESILIENT PALISADES — $10,000 · Environment+2 more — $9,900 · EnvironmentDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $31,500 · HealthACEING AUTISM INC — $26,000 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $20,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $18,000 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA LOS ANGELES INC — $18,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 · HealthTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $9,000 · HealthCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $7,750 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 · Health+4 more — $11,500 · HealthTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FIELDWORKERS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ARTS — $7,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC — $4,900 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $11,200 · Arts & Culture
Education$562,750Other$839,600Philanthropy$326,500Human Services$225,450Environment$187,900Health$158,750Arts & Culture$132,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $289,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $126,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $107,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $107,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $95,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $56,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHav A Sole — $55,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $46,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper — $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPATH — $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE HILL SCHOOL — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $35,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI CENTER SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA — $34,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWashington School Parent Teacher Organization & Foundation Inc — $33,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $31,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRECOVERY SHOT — $26,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetACEING AUTISM INC — $26,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCCAI — $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAAPLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC — $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA LOS ANGELES INC — $18,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INN — $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM READS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWILLBRIDGE OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA — $10,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERISTEM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENT PALISADES — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetELEVATE ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Hav A Sole ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEGASUS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Coastkeeper ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI CENTER SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds Washington School Parent Teacher Organization & Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY SHOT ↗
  • Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds CCAI ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AAPLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Patricia Bragg Founda…California Community …Ann Jackson Family Fo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Mosher FoundationManitou FundJune G Outhwaite Char…Williams-Corbett Foun…Www FoundationBrittingham Family Fo…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA47.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Www Foundation · Brittingham Family 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 Dolotta Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 150 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home