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The Dwan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Dwan Family 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$327kReligion$160kRecreation & Sports$104kEducation$60kArts & Culture$27kHuman Services$14kPhilanthropy$3kCrime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$132k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL$30,000
STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MILLER DWAN FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%SAINT PIUS TENTH SCHOOL: $50k → 14%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET ADVISORY COUNCIL: $5k → 17%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%CLARA MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER: $100k → 12%STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%The US Olympic & Paralympic Museum: $3k → 9%Teton Youth and Family Services: $10k → 5%ARTCETERA: $13k → 15%St Raphael Catholic Church: $50k → 9%OLD BILL'S FUN RUN FOR CHARITIES: $8k → 5%Miller-Dwan Foundation: $50k → 15%CHAPEL OF OUR SAVIOUR: $30k → 9%Teton Youth and Family Services: $6k → 5%ARTCETERA2018: $9k → 15%COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $30k → 9%TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 5%ST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25k → 15%CHAPEL OF OUR SAVIOUR: $30k → 9%OLD BILL'S FUN RUN FOR CHARITIES: $5k → 5%ST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25k → 15%CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO: $1k → 9%TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 5%Cheyenne Mountain Zoo: $250 → 9%Community Foundation of Jackson Hole: $3k → 5%Teton County 4H: $2k → 5%TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 5%TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILLARY INC: $500 → 5%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$501k · 7 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$501k
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+882%

Still filing today

29%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MF
    MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
    2× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +70%
  • SR
    St Raphael Catholic Church
    3× · 2020–2024 · $100k
  • CO
    CHAPEL OF OUR SAVIOUR
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k

Funded once

  • CM
    CLARA MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • SP
    SAINT PIUS TENTH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • A
    ARTCETERA
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
10
Fisk University

Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teton Youth and Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 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. 8 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARA MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCLARA MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTERSt Raphael Catholic Church: $100,000 · OtherSt Raphael Catholic ChurchCHAPEL OF OUR SAVIOUR: $60,000 · OtherCHAPEL OF OUR SAVIOURSAINT PIUS TENTH SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherSAINT PIUS TENTH SCHOOLARTCETERA: $13,256 · OtherOLD BILL'S FUN RUN FOR CHARITIES: $12,500 · Other+6 more: $18,841 · OtherMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $300,000 · HealthMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIESTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $26,628 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $2,770 · Arts & CultureTETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$354,597Health$331,628Education$40,000Philanthropy$3,000Arts & Culture$2,770Crime & Legal$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $26,628 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $2,770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
  • Who funds TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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