· Private foundation
The Dozen Dimes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST | $2,725,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $100,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $75,000 |
| NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| THE BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KATE'S CLUB | $45,244 |
| EAST LAKE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND | $25,000 |
| WABE | $25,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE THEATRE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +113%
- CTCAMP TWIN LAKES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $325k · revenue +25%
- WFWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC2× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GMGEORGIA MUSEUMS INC (BOOTH MUSEUM)one grant, 2024 · $200k
- AEAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collabone grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +13%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization The Dozen Dimes 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.