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The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive 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.

$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$203k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$3.4MHuman Services$86kEnvironment$22kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$5kHealth$1kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $366k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$203,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$87,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$75,000
CLAREMONT-MCKENNA COLLEGE$25,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$20,000
ANNA MARIA ISLAND GARDEN CLUB INC$1,500
GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $50k → 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $25k → 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $5k → 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $4k → 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 6 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$3.2M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+0%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +52%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $895k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2020 · $192k
  • FK
    FAIRVIEW KNIGHTS FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +0% · 31% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

4
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
5
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
6
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
7
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
12
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Mellon University and the most unlike its peers is Integrated Recovery Foundation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Carnegie Mellon University — $2,000,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $192,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY+7 more — $84,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $894,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FO…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $100,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolog…+1 more — $250 · EducationANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER — $85,500 · Human ServicesCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,276,600Education$1,119,750Human Services$85,500Environment$20,000Arts & Culture$4,500Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $2,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $894,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER — $85,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATED RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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