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The Dobranski Foundation

Name: The Dobranski Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

47
grants reported: $116,324
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

The Inner Loop4 grants · $58,041
Lowell School4 grants · $19,000
The Sidwell Friends Fund3 grants · $11,733
Yale University4 grants · $6,788
Cornell University4 grants · $5,600
Penfaulkner3 grants · $4,331
Ifaw3 grants · $3,057
Temple Beth-El Itacha Ny1 grant · $1,874
Humane Rescue Alliance1 grant · $1,030
Life Source1 grant · $1,000

Giving over time

$15,173

2022

$14,579

2023

$13,303

2024

$73,269

2025

Grant history

All 47 reported grants, largest first.

$53,030
The Inner Loop · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$8,000
Lowell School · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$5,850
The Sidwell Friends Fund · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Lowell School · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$4,000
Lowell School · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$4,000
The Sidwell Friends Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$3,021
The Inner Loop · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$2,541
Penfaulkner · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$2,000
Lowell School · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$2,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
General purpose
$1,883
The Sidwell Friends Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$1,874
Temple Beth-El Itacha Ny · Ithaca, NY · 2025
General purpose
$1,788
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
General purpose
$1,534
Penfaulkner · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$1,500
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2025
General purpose
$1,500
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2025
General purpose
$1,500
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
General purpose
$1,500
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
General purpose
$1,500
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
General purpose
$1,279
The Inner Loop · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$1,100
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
General purpose
$1,057
Ifaw · Yarmouth Port, MA · 2025
General purpose
$1,030
Humane Rescue Alliance · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Ifaw · Yarmouth Port, MA · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Life Source · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Ifaw · Yarmouth Port, MA · 2022
General purpose
$711
The Inner Loop · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$515
The Writer'S Center · Bethesda, MD · 2024
General purpose
$500
Rorschach Theatre · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$500
The Avalon Theatre · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$365
Wamu Radio · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$256
Harmonic Music Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$256
Penfaulkner · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$250
National Links Trust · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$250
The Writer'S Center · Bethesda, MD · 2023
General purpose
$164
Smithsonian National Zoo · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$160
Planned Parenthood of Dc · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$153
Yale Club of Dc · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$150
The Phillips Collection · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$106
Nanowrimo · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General purpose
$106
Van Ness Main Street · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$104
Wikimedia · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General purpose
$100
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$52
Wikimedia · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General purpose
$52
Wikimedia · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General purpose
$52
The Writer'S Center · Bethesda, MD · 2022
General purpose
$35
Xerces Society · Portland, OR · 2024
General purpose

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.