· Private foundation
The Dolphin Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY POWER NETWORK | $1,000 |
| US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK | $1,000 |
| DIVERSE CITY FUND | $1,000 |
| ALABAMA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $1,000 |
| CATALYST PROJECT | $500 |
| APPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CTR | $500 |
| SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND | $500 |
| POWERSHIFT NETWORK | $500 |
| TAPROOT | $500 |
| CENTER FOR ENERGY EDUCATION | $500 |
| NC JUSTICE CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue ×25- PSPOWER SHIFT NETWORK4× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2018 · $16k
- AFALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -46%
- TWTHE WATERSHED CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +18%
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.
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.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
To educate workers and the public about policies that will build a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.
ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENERGY EDUCATION FKA SOLAR CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Flock Inc · The Partnership Project Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dolphin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dolphin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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