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Dornick 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$6.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dornick Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$1.5M59%
FY20242$457k0%
FY202312$1.1M58%
FY20228$582k63%
FY20216$883k83%
FY20203$710k33%
FY20193$800k67%
FY20187$450k100%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$2.5MEnvironment$861kArts & Culture$569kEducation$519kHousing & Shelter$390kReligion$384kPhilanthropy$362kPublic Benefit$360kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
OR
IN
CA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dornick Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetManaus: $2,456,934 over 7y, 88% of budgetAspen Center for Environmental Studies: $350,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetColorado Institute for Public Life: $300,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetValley Settlement: $274,180 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInterfaith Education Fund Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWilderness Workshop: $93,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Art Base: $86,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHomeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAspen Journalism: $73,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetThe Arts Campus at Willits: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetA Way Out Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetIBU Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCharitable Allies Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontford Hall: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPauline S Schneegas Wildlife Founda: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTogether West Michigan Education Fund: $14,589 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Immigration Forum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKcrw Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Colorado Gives Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Catto Shaw Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · The Thendara Foundation · Brady Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · The Flunison Fund · Ruth a Carver 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.

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How do I get to Dornick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dornick Foundation Inc 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.

About Dornick Foundation Inc

How much does Dornick Foundation Inc give?
Dornick Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $1,505,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dornick Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Environment (12%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Dornick Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manaus ($2.5M), Roaring Fork Conservancy ($400k), Aspen Center for Environmental Studies ($350k).
Does Dornick Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dornick Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dornick Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, The Thrift Shop, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Dornick Foundation Inc based?
Dornick Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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