· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $366k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCarnegie Mellon University5× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +52%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $895k · revenue +40%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYone grant, 2020 · $192k
- FKFAIRVIEW KNIGHTS FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2018 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +0% · 31% of their budget
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
How this is measured
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