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Blue Dolphin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Religion$44kHealth$9kHuman Services$9kYouth Development$7kEducation$6kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$960Civil Rights$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$371
Median grant
7
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Marlboro Jewish Center$13,297
Jewish Family and Children Services$1,800
BBYO$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
Joan Dancy and Pals$1,800
Individual grant recipient$720
Jewish National Fund$500
Friends of Isreal Defense Fund$500
University of Miami$500
PEF Isreal Endowment Fund$500
Individual grant recipient$371
FARE$318
Birthright Israel Foundation$250
Washington University Hillel$180
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $128) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $128 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$75k · 17 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

$75k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+11%

Still filing today

24%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MJ
    MARLBORO JEWISH CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $36k
  • JD
    JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +100%
  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +36%
  • JN
    Jewish National Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $360
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $360

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
5
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matthew Friedman Memorial Foundation Inc. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARLBORO JEWISH CENTER — $36,048 · OtherMARLBORO JEWISH CENTER+32 more — $29,480 · Other+32 moreJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC — $7,564 · Philanthropy+1 more — $50 · PhilanthropyB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $7,200 · Youth DevelopmentBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $616 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $500 · InternationalUniversity of Miami — $500 · EducationFREEHOLD TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FDN — $155 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $180 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $60 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $56 · HealthMatthew Friedman Memorial Foundation Inc — $54 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50 · HealthSEA BRIGHT FIRST AID INC — $200 · Public Safety & DisasterSEA BRIGHT FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $100 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$315,528Philanthropy$7,614Youth Development$7,200International$1,116Education$655Health$400Public Safety & Disaster$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC — $7,564 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $616 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA BRIGHT FIRST AID INC — $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEHOLD TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FDN — $155 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC — $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew Friedman Memorial Foundation Inc — $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds SEA BRIGHT FIRST AID INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FDN
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds MONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC
  • Who funds SEA BRIGHT FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Blue Dolphin Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Blue Dolphin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blue Dolphin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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