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Doane Family 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$193kHuman Services$140kHousing & Shelter$100kEducation$58kPhilanthropy$23kHealth$21kReligion$12kAnimals$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$836k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE HARBOR INC$20,000
TOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITY$12,500
ST ANNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL (ROCK HILL)$2,500
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFE HARBOR INC: $20k → 10%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

MN
NY
IA
OH
VA
NC
SC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$536k · 12 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +317% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$536k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+317%
+66%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +377%
  • HF
    HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +87%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $56k · revenue ×23

Funded once

  • FF
    FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENVILLE SC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • UA
    UNC ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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
Greenville Country Club Scholarship Foundation

To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.

Education
2
The Scga Foundation

The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…

Recreation & Sports
3
South Carolina Tennis Association Inc

To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.

4
The Arc of Southwest Georgia Inc

Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.

Human Services
5
The Support Sight Foundation

Empower and educate sight-impaired individuals and their families with disease education knowledge, tools and technology so they may live more independently and maintain a high quality of life.

Health
6
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
7
Hudson Valley Golf Foundation

To support wounded veterans, individuals with intellectual disabilities, and disadvantaged youth through golf; and to provide a platform for west point to showcase its golf program

Recreation & Sports
8
The Ben Hogan Foundation

The ben hogan foundation is dedicated to honor, celebrate, and preserve the legacy and character of ben hogan through support of organizations that promote the game of golf and charities that reflect mr. hogan's core values.

Philanthropy
9
South Carolina Wildlife Partnership

Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.

Animals
10
Gcsaa Foundation

Secure funding and support to strengthen advocacy, education, and research that advances the work of golf course management professionals.

Education
11
Seg Foundation

Seg foundation advances geophysics today and inspires geoscientists for tomorrow through funding innovative activities and grant programs that benefit geophysicists, their professional community and the society of exploration geophysicists…

Science & Tech
12
Waterstep Inc

Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tim Tebow Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITY — $70,000 · OtherTOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITYCLUB CAR CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE LANDINGS CLUB — $20,000 · OtherCLUB CAR CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE LAN…PRISMA HEALTH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-UPSTATE — $15,000 · OtherPRISMA HEALTH CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…GREENVILLE COUNTY PARKS RECREATION TOURISM — $13,000 · OtherGREENVILLE COUNTY PARKS RECREATI…ACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELS — $10,500 · OtherACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELSFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF (FAR) — $7,500 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENVILLE SC — $6,000 · Other+7 more — $23,200 · Other+7 moreSAFE HARBOR INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCSOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterSOLON COMMUNITY LIV…HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsHOPE FLOATS FOU…+1 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $55,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…THE LPGA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationTHE LPGA FO…TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentSIDEWALK HOPE INC — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$165,200Human Services$140,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Recreation & Sports$77,000Education$60,500Philanthropy$22,500Youth Development$15,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $140,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $55,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetSIDEWALK HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LPGA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 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 SAFE HARBOR INC
  • Who funds SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC
  • Who funds HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SIDEWALK HOPE INC
  • Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Doane Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Doane Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Doane Family 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 23 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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