· Private foundation
Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of WARREN AND ZOANN LITTLE DUSENBURY CHARITY TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $280k
- $250k+4 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUSENBURY FAMILY CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND | $7,918,373 |
| THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $1,429,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $370,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $335,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $25,000 |
| BOOK TRUST | $25,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| CROSSROADS SAFE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK | $15,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M 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
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $616k · revenue +76%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY3× · 2018–2020 · $519k · revenue +53%
- BTBOOK TRUST4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer Countygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +45%
- ENEMERALD NECKLACE ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CFCOALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHEDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +206%
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.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bas Bleu Theater Company. 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 43 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 — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bas Bleu Theater Company ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds OpenStage Theatre and Co Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CITY COMMUNITY BROADCAST GROUP ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED ↗
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: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Cleveland Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The George Gund Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Food Bank for Larimer County · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · United Way of Larimer County · Anschutz Family 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 Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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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