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The Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable 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 $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAS MADRINAS | $25,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $25,000 |
| VERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| IMMACULATE HEART HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST RAPHAEL CENTER | $25,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICAN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CEN | $25,000 |
| VINCENTIAN FATHERS AND BROTHERS | $21,250 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $15,500 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $14,750 |
| SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARY MINISTERS | $14,000 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC | $13,500 |
| USC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| ASCENCIA | $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, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +68% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- MAMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +18%
- LMLAS MADRINAS9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +17%
- BIBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- COCONGREGATION OF THE MISSION WESTERNone grant, 2017 · $15k
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- YAYoung America's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +67%
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 The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 14. 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 73 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 MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL MINDS ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENCIA ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MARYVALE GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION OF CALIF INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE FAMILY ↗
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: The Ahmanson Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Klm Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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