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The Dorsey Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$225kAnimals$130kRecreation & Sports$75kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION$40,000
PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION$13,744
DUCKS UNLIMITED$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KNOCK KNOCK ANGELS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
PA
CA
CO
AZ
TN
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 4 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +150% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$366k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+150%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DC
    DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $215k · revenue +150%
  • CS
    CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • PC
    PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k

Funded once

  • DS
    DALLAS SAFARI CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +416%
  • RG
    RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • RP
    ROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -37%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
3
Moore-Odom Wildlife Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
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5
Ruffed Grouse Society Group Return

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.

Environment
6
The Huntsman Foundation
—
7
Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation
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8
Dsc Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
9
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Noble Gorilla Reserve Foundation
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11
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
12
Texas Foundation for Conservation

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Safari Club; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $215,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATIONPARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION: $50,244 · OtherPARK CITIES QUAIL COALITIONSCI CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $26,000 · OtherSCI CLUB INTERNATIONALQUAIL FOREVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDALLAS SAFARI CLUB: $10,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED: $10,000 · OtherTHE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $6,000 · OtherROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $5,000 · AnimalsJACK CREEK PRESERVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · AnimalsRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE: $2,500 · EnvironmentKNOCK KNOCK ANGELS: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$225,000Other$194,744Animals$20,000Environment$12,500Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $215,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS SAFARI CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOCK KNOCK ANGELS: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJACK CREEK PRESERVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dorsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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