· Private foundation
Doran Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,200 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION | $6,200 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| MURRAY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN HERITAGE SCOUT COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ANNA MAE OWEN HOSPICE HOUSE | $400 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $200 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +195% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $621k · revenue +32%
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +60%- MSMAIN STREET YOUTH CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- WIWATCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%
- NNEEDLINEone grant, 2018 · $4k
- MCMURRAY CALLOWAY NEED LINE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +212%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide community and economic development services to the murray and calloway county kentucky areas.
To provide support to murray state college for student scholarships, faculty initiatives, and college development.
To assist and improve schools, teachers and students within Murray City School District.
The Madison Valley Medical Center Foundation is a community based, non-profit corporation which exists to inspire gifts and grants from individuals, foundations, corporations and other entities to support the health and well-being of…
Solicit and distribute funds to local charities.
None.
We see a financially sound, self-sufficient marion county hospital district as an indispensable member of a premier local healthcare system which is widely recognized for providing all marion county residents with improved, accessible,…
To grow and develop a highly effective, multi-regional physician practice that is a central component of a community-focused, vertically integrated health care delivery system supporting the operations of munson medical center with a…
Support of mason district hospital
Mile bluff medical center foundation provides philanthropic opportunities and support to mile bluff medical center and assists it in fulfilling its mission, adhering to its core values and pursuing its vision to provide the community with…
The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation At Murray Calloway County Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Murray Art Guild. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MISD FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MURRAY ART GUILD ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MURRAY CALLOWAY NEED LINE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALLOWAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TOWING FOR TOYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT MURRAY CALLOWAY COUNTY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Foundation of West Kyinc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Doran Foundation Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.