· Private foundation
The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $495k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $227k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL | $76,667 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $25,000 |
| PARARESCUE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WOOD RIVER | $21,667 |
| FOUND FOR INDIV RIGHTS IN EDUC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHOPEDICS | $20,000 |
| JOHN C MORAN EYE CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VETERAN STUDIES | $16,666 |
| PEREGRINE FUND | $15,000 |
| SAGE SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +55% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SDSAN DIEGO FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $356k · revenue +49%
- PFPARARESCUE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +214% · 25% of their budget
- TSTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $78k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WOWord of Honor Fundone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +21%
- ASANIMAL SHELTER OF THE WR VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- BCBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +200%
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.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Provide quality education for grades kindergarten through high school,as well as providing auxiliary educational programs to the students to strengthen their overall learning experience.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.
Gould academy guides students to be creative, courageous and resilient and to lead lives of fulfillment and purpose.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
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.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The wild salmon center (wsc) has created the stronghold fund to provide long-term financial support to wsc and its partners for efforts in key watersheds throughout the north pacific.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Fire Department. 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 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PARARESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF UTAH CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD ↗
- Who funds ALL IN ALL THE TIME ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
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: Boswell Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Nalen Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas Martin Jr Family Foundation · Kemmerer Family Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Orange County Community Foundation
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 Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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