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Doctorbird 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 23
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$27M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Doctorbird Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & Sports
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$1.6M10%
FY202421$1.5M5%
FY202320$1.5M0%
FY202223$1.7M13%
FY202120$1.5M0%
FY202021$1.5M10%
FY201921$1.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$3.6MEducation$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MInternational$460kEnvironment$410kRecreation & Sports$351kHousing & Shelter$330kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WI
NY
PA
CO
VA
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($470k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Doctorbird Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $1,700,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: $1,425,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetVital Communities Inc: $1,223,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetBeloit College: $1,135,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica: $660,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetVermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: $410,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetSt Francis House: $330,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetOak Hammock at the University of Florida Inc: $326,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBread of the Mighty Food Bank Inc: $325,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Florida Inc: $265,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $247,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPeaceful Paths Inc: $235,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetThe Education Foundation of Alachua County Inc: $210,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetGainesville Chamber Orchestra Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetHelping Hands Clinic Inc: $163,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetRemote Area Medical: $155,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNew London Barn Playhouse Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBucknell University: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central Florida Hospice Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMoosilauke Visions Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStateline Family YMCA of Beloit: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Hospice of Northeast Florida: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Hope Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Keewaydin Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Community Foundation of North Central FloridaFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Florida · State Chartered Credit Unions in Florida · Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc · First Federal Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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About Doctorbird Foundation

How much does Doctorbird Foundation give?
Doctorbird Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,622,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Doctorbird Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (23%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Doctorbird Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($1.7M), Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc ($1.4M), Vital Communities Inc ($1.2M).
Does Doctorbird Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Doctorbird Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Doctorbird Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Florida, State Chartered Credit Unions in Florida, Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Doctorbird Foundation based?
Doctorbird Foundation is based in DE.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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