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Doogood Foundation Inc at a glance

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Doogood Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$502kHuman Services$401kCrime & Legal$250kHousing & Shelter$248kInternational$193kCivil Rights$191kPhilanthropy$50kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $980k
  • $250k+2 grants · $530k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$280,000
BRIDGE INSTITUTE$250,000
AMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY$237,374
GOOD LAW PROJECT$190,770
Individual grant recipient$101,799
ALWAYS HOME$100,000
THE BAIL PROJECT$100,000
PORCHLIGHT$97,692
EMORY UNIVERSITY$82,500
Individual grant recipient$70,029
CELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC$25,341
FORMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC$12,784
OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS$10,000
I AM BOUNDLESS INC$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 84% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($383k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $399k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 16%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $10k → 7%THE BOUNDLESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%I AM BOUNDLESS INC: $10k → 15%BRIDGE INSTITUTE: $250k → 20%CELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 16%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $10k → 7%BRIDGE INSTITUTE: $50k → 20%CELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 16%PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 9%PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 9%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

WA
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
TN
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 16% of all-years giving ($383k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$383k · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$940k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+141%

Still filing today

83%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $770k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TB
    The Bridge Institute Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +142% · 89% of their budget
  • AH
    ALWAYS HOME INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $133k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • DA
    DONOR ADVISED FUND AT GOLDMAN SACHS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • GD
    GOOD DEED LAW PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
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
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
2
Westport Library Association Inc

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education
3
Greenwich Free Library

To provide free library services and computer access to the community.

Education
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
5
New City Free Library

To provide free public library services

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6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
8
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
9
Island Hospital Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.

Unclassified
10
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read 718 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stonington Village Improvement Assoc 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $280,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOOD LAW PROJECT: $190,770 · OtherGOOD LAW PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $101,799 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $70,029 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDONOR ADVISED FUND AT GOLDMAN SACHS: $50,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUND AT GOLDMAN SACHSGOOD DEED LAW PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherGOOD DEED LAW PROJECT+8 more: $51,500 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY: $347,925 · EducationAMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLAS…Emory University: $132,500 · EducationEmory University+2 more: $1,500 · EducationThe Bridge Institute Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesThe Bridge Institut…CELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC: $49,341 · Human ServicesCELTIC FC FOUNDATIO…OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $30,000 · Human Services+3 moreALWAYS HOME INC: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOME …CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $97,692 · Housing & ShelterCONGREGATION…THE BAIL PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL …FORMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONS INC: $122,784 · InternationalFORMING S…DIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 · InternationalDIRECT RE…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalHAITIAN H…Garde Arts Center Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSalt Marsh Opera Company: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSTONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $750 · Arts & Culture
Other$794,098Education$481,925Human Services$399,341Housing & Shelter$247,692Crime & Legal$200,000International$192,784Arts & Culture$4,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY: $347,925 over 2y, 17% of budgetThe Bridge Institute Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 89% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC: $150,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEmory University: $132,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONS INC: $122,784 over 3y, 50% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $97,692 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC: $49,341 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetI AM BOUNDLESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOUNDLESS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVISION PACKS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Marsh Opera Company: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Castle Family Foundat…Fromson Foundation IncChelsea Groton Founda…The Edward and Mary L…The Pfizer Foundation…Dime Bank Foundation …The Community Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Dxn FoundationConnecticut Humanitie…Dominion Energy Chari…The Bank of America C…
Castle Family FoundationCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Castle Family Foundation · Fromson Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Dxn Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Doogood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doogood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Garde Arts Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Stonington Free Library Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 33 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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