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The Dwoskin 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.
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
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAMAICA | $510,000 |
| INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT | $150,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES | $50,000 |
| SAVE OUR BOYS AND GIRLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| INOVA KELLAR CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY - JHUAN | $10,000 |
| SPARK THE JOURNEY | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FASD UNITED INC | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY20–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Dwoskin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $683k · revenue +8%
- AFAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $548k · revenue +41%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue ×44
Funded once
- WMWilliam & Mary Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +129%
- VVVET VOICE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +65%
- CFCOUNTERACT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $180k · 47% of their budget
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 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is The David Wagga Hunt Scholarship Foundation Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Jamaica Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTERACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING INC ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG INVINCIBLES ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tryall Fund Jamaica ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPARK THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
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.
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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 Dwoskin 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.
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