· Private foundation
Doris Buffett Legacy Foundation Inc Fka Sunshine Lady Humanitarian Grants Pr
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $248k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| RED SOX FOUNDATION | $98,399 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES | $50,000 |
| THE REDSOX FOUNDATION | $41,040 |
| WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TRUST | $14,500 |
| TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,950 |
| DARWIN'S ARK FOUNDATION | $10,799 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UTEC | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FACES | $10,000 |
| THE RAMS CLUB | $10,000 |
| 3 INDIVIDUAL GRANT RECIPIENTS | $7,888 |
| ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER | $7,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $572k · revenue +22%
- NVNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC4× · 2019–2024 · $151k · revenue ×50
- WCWoodstock Community Trust Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1.3M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $553k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $468k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Education and Research
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The uvmhnhhh helps people live their fullest lives by providing innovative, high value, compassionate care wherever they call home.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 110 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.
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Doris Buffett Legacy Foundation Inc Fka Sunshine Lady Humanitarian Grants Pr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris Buffett Legacy Foundation Inc Fka Sunshine Lady Humanitarian Grants Pr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Twin Pines Housing Trust: 100% of income from government
- Living Independently Forever Inc: 66% of income from government
- Seeds 4 Success Inc: 48% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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