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Doherty Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$184kFood & Nutrition$82kHuman Services$81kAnimals$37kReligion$33kHousing & Shelter$30kHealth$26kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$6,934
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVEMN$49,500
RED CROSS$10,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$8,347
GARY SINESE FOUNDATION$7,653
Individual grant recipient$7,066
LOAVES AND FISHES$6,934
NAWBO$5,000
CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND$5,000
MY GOOD DEED$4,500
SUSAN G KOMEN$3,621
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$3,295
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION$1,400
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%RED CROSS: $5k → 14%FACE TO FACE: $1k → 14%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $5k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $2k → 11%CHEERFUL GIVERS: $1k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $2k → 11%CHEERFUL GIVERS: $1k → 11%CHEERFUL GIVERS: $1k → 11%YOUTH LINK: $2k → 11%YOUTH LINK: $2k → 11%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
CA
KY
VA
DC
GA
TX

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$534k · 37 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
19

Total granted

$534k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+1%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • G
    GIVEMN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $168k · revenue +2%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $33k · revenue +220%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -19%
  • VI
    VEAP Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • PF
    PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +36%

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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
4
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
5
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
6
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
7
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
11
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
12
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%44%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,215

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

48 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GIVEMN — $167,500 · PhilanthropyGIVEMNGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $24,764 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION911 DAY — $8,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $8,400 · PhilanthropyLOAVES AND FISHES — $50,423 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHESUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $33,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCIndividual grant recipient — $30,205 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY — $22,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $9,041 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherHARRIET TUBMAN SHELTER — $8,000 · Other+24 more — $65,562 · Other+24 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $18,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND…HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesHALLIE Q BR…BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $5,136 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS I…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR…YOUTHLINK — $4,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKGOOD IN THE 'HOOD — $4,000 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE…CHEERFUL GIVERS — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesAnimal Humane Society — $37,060 · AnimalsTREEHOUSE INC — $8,500 · HealthTUBMAN — $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,780 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,621 · Health+2 more — $750 · HealthThe Lift Garage — $10,500 · EmploymentTwin Cities Rise — $2,000 · EmploymentHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 · EmploymentSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $4,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL — $4,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $2,000 · Food & NutritionGROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$217,164Other$226,731Human Services$58,136Animals$37,060Health$22,651Employment$13,500Food & Nutrition$11,000

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 budgetGIVEMN — $167,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $37,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $33,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $24,764 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lift Garage — $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $9,041 over 3y, 0.0% of budget911 DAY — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $5,136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $5,062 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUBMAN — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD IN THE 'HOOD — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,621 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Rise — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW NATIVE THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…Greater Twin Cities U…Pohlad Family Foundat…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Walser FoundationTarget Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN34.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Target 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 Doherty 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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