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Dorea Foundation at a glance

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Dorea 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.

$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MReligion$863kSocial Science$329kYouth Development$250kEducation$75kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA$150,000
TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$108,889
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARACTERORG: $25k → 14%LEON PANNKUK & FRIENDS: $40k → 5%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 8%VITAE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%FIRST LIGHT MINISTIRES: $75k → 11%THRIVE ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%RIDGE HAVEN INC: $250k → 13%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $300k → 9%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 9%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 8%VITAE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%FIRST LIGHT MINISTIRES: $75k → 11%RIDGE HAVEN INC: $250k → 13%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $150k → 9%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 9%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 8%FIRST LIGHT MINISTIRES: $75k → 11%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $150k → 9%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 9%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 8%LEON PANNKUK & FRIENDS: $40k → 11%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $100k → 9%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 9%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 8%LEON PANNKUK & FRIENDS: $40k → 11%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $75k → 9%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $109k → 11%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $71k → 9%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50k → 11%MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $71k → 9%TWIN OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50k → 11%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50k → 11%TWIN OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25k → 11%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 11%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 11%TWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $18k → 11%CHARACTERPLUS (FRIENDS OF CHARACTERPLUS): $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF CHARACTERPLUS: $50k → 11%CHARACTERPLUS (FRIENDS OF CHARACTERPLUS): $50k → 11%CHARACTERPLUS (FRIENDS OF CHARACTERPLUS): $50k → 11%CHARACTERPLUS (FRIENDS OF CHARACTERPLUS): $50k → 11%GOOD SHEPARD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $200k → 11%FIRST LIGHT MINISTIRES: $275k → 11%GOOD SHEPARD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 11%FIRST LIGHT MINISTIRES: $125k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 13 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -58% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$5.3M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-58%

Still filing today

46%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • BT
    BEHIND THE SCENE INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $885k · revenue +45% · 86% of their budget
  • SM
    SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +26%
  • VF
    VITAE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $329k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • MT
    MISSION TO THE WORLD
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TS
    THRIVE ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -58%
  • C
    CHARACTERORG
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Lifesource Ministries Inc

Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.

Health
2
Passionlife Ministries Inc

Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.

Religion
3
Center for Faith and Work St Louis

The Center for Faith and Work St. Louis is a ministry focused on engaging the world through Biblical understanding of work and vocation. The character of God, shapes the character of our work. CFW seeks to engage all who desire to do…

Religion
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Christian Lingua Services
Religion
6
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
7
Save a Life International Inc

Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…

Human Services
8
Christian Family Services Inc

"religion that god our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." james 1:27ff (bible) cfs therefore operates for the purpose of…

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9
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
10
Tellasia Ministries Inc

Tellasia brings christ and establishes communities of faith where he is not yet known. win life mentors new disciples, establishes self-supporting churches, trains pastors, and catalyzes church planting movements.

Religion
11
Mission Partners for Christ Aka Community Health Initiatives
Community Improvement
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Characterplus; the most unlike its peers is Leon Pannkuk and Friends. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $916,000 · OtherMISSION TO NORTH AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $625,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIDGE HAVEN INC: $500,000 · OtherRIDGE HAVEN INCVITAE FOUNDATION: $329,000 · OtherVITAE FOUNDATIONTWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $276,889 · OtherTWIN OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $250,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICESLEON PANNKUK AND FRIENDS: $120,000 · Other+3 more: $200,000 · Other+3 moreBEHIND THE SCENE INTERNATIONAL: $885,000 · Arts & CultureBEHIND THE SCENE I…SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE M…Compassion International Incorporated: $300,000 · InternationalCHARACTERPLUS: $250,000 · EducationCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 · Health
Other$3,216,889Arts & Culture$885,000Human Services$500,000International$300,000Education$250,000Youth Development$225,000Health$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEHIND THE SCENE INTERNATIONAL: $885,000 over 4y, 86% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC: $500,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $329,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARACTERPLUS: $250,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $250,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEON PANNKUK AND FRIENDS: $120,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds BEHIND THE SCENE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds LEON PANNKUK AND FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS 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.

St Louis Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dorea Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dorea Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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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