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· Private foundation
THE DOMINUS NIHIL FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$10k
Granted FY2023
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Grants
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Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Public Benefit$1.1MCrime & Legal$810kEducation$400kInternational$211kHealth$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$795k
02FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- VISTA HILL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 84% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Southwestern Law School
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
Education
2
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights ("SCHR") is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
Civil Rights
3
Gruter Institute for Law and
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New York Law School
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.
Education
5
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
6
University of Virginia Law School
The primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds to benefit the uva law school.
Education
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National Women's Law Center
To advance and protect women's legal rights.
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Environmental Law Institute
To advance effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information, publications, training courses, seminars, research and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and…
Environment
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Judicial Watch Inc
To promote integrity, transparency and accountability in government and fidelity to the rule of law through public advocacy, litigation, and monitoring and investigating federal, state and local government entities and officials, among…
Public Benefit
10
Sur Legal Collaborative Inc
Sur Legal Collaborative, an immigrant and worker rights organization based in Georgia, strives to end labor abuse of workers and to abolish immigrant detention.
Crime & Legal
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Southern California Institute
The southern california institute of architecture is a fully accredited school.
Education
12
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
At a historic meeting at the White House in 1963, President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy challenged 244 of America's most prominent attorneys to spearhead the cause for equal…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Hill Foundation and the most unlike its peers is California Western School of Law. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Benefit$1,053,205Crime & Legal$810,000Other$795,000Education$400,000International$211,000Health$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000
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.
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.
Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · 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 organisation THE DOMINUS NIHIL 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PUBLIC WATCHDOGS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 811842056 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PUBLIC WATCHDOGS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Dominus Nihil Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Dominus Nihil Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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