· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MURRAY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +195% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Doran Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doran Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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