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Albert and Joan Dorman Family Foundation at a glance

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Albert and Joan Dorman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Social Science$331kEducation$213kScience & Tech$208kCommunity Improvement$173kHealth$55kInternational$39kArts & Culture$30kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLADSTONE INSTITUTES$80,000
THE FOUNDATION AT NJIT$52,500
HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE$10,000
USC VITERBI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$6,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$4,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$3,500
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING$2,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION (ACLU)$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND (EDF)$2,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$2,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$1,500
COLBURN SCHOOL$1,250
MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (MEMRI)$1,000
COMMON CAUSE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $800 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $650 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $250 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $250 → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $2k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $1k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $500 → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $500 → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $500 → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
UT
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$934k · 76 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
26

Total granted

$934k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+18%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HM
    Harvey Mudd College
    5× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +34%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +40%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SG
    SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL LLP
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • KI
    KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +59%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
11
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
12
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
48/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $426,094 · OtherGLADSTONE INSTITUTESNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $204,956 · OtherNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYTHE FOUNDATION AT NJIT: $52,500 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION AT NJIT+74 more: $192,851 · Other+74 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $101,720 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUT…Harvey Mudd College: $43,000 · EducationHarvey Mudd Colleg…UCLA FOUNDATION: $31,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $2,700 · EducationBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $9,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $2,500 · International+2 more: $850 · InternationalTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $2,750 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,350 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $650 · Arts & CultureHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $13,206 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $500 · ReligionFULFILLMENT FUND: $4,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $3,450 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$876,401Education$188,420International$38,350Arts & Culture$15,250Religion$13,706Human Services$8,050Civil Rights$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $101,720 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $13,206 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $3,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,635 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SLO COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert and Joan Dorman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert and Joan Dorman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Drew University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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