· Private foundation
The Dorsey Family 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 · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION | $13,744 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| QUAIL FOREVER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| JACK CREEK PRESERVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATUREBRIDGE | $2,500 |
| AMI KIDS | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +150% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- DCDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS3× · 2020–2022 · $215k · revenue +150%
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
- PCPARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION2× · 2022–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- DSDALLAS SAFARI CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +416%
- RGRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
- RPROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -37%
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.
Established in 1961, the ruffed grouse society unites conservationists to improve wildlife habitat and forest health and promote a conservation ethic, all grounded in the tenets of science-based management practices.
To serve the mission and vision of the dallas safari club and to promote, establish and conduct science based research supporting sustainable use wildlife conservation and the role of well regulated hunting. to create and maintain a…
Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Safari Club and the most unlike its peers is Knock Knock Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SAFARI CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JACK CREEK PRESERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
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: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Dorsey Family 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.
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.