· 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 Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $25,000 |
| PARARESCUE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WOOD RIVER | $21,667 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHOPEDICS | $20,000 |
| JOHN C MORAN EYE CENTER | $20,000 |
| FOUND FOR INDIV RIGHTS IN EDUC | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 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 FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD ↗
- Who funds ALL IN ALL THE TIME ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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