How much did DORNICK FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

Community Improvement$2.8MEnvironment$750kArts & Culture$709kEducation$444kPhilanthropy$82kPublic Benefit$60kHealth$50kInternational$35kSocial Science$25kOther$2.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

—

2020

—

2021

—

2022

aspen

2023

aspen

2024

—

2025

mountainvalleyaspen

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k10 grants · $175k
$50k–250k5 grants · $425k
$250k+3 grants · $900k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$400,000
VALLEY SETTLEMENT$250,000
ORGANIZING INSTITUTE SOUTH AND WEST IAF$250,000
ENGLISH IN ACTION$160,000
ASPEN MOUNTAIN ARTIST RESIDENCY$100,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$65,000
THE ART BASE$50,000
COLORADO INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LIFE$50,000
ASPEN JOURNALISM$35,000
VALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION$25,000
IBU FOUNDATION$25,000
COLOMBIA LAND TRUST$18,000
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$16,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON$16,000
I STAND WITH MY PACK$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.6M · 13 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%

+43%

Still filing today

62%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

MF
MANAUS FUND
7× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +210% · 88% of their budget
AC
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +66%
VS
VALLEY SETTLEMENT
2× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +26%

Funded once

SI
SOUTHWEST INTERFAITH EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2017 · $308k
MF
MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +231%
IE
INTERFAITH EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

The Wild Rockies Field Institute offers academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.

Education

Institute for Social and Environmental

To advance environmentally sustainable development and poverty alleviation. See Part III

Environment

Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement

Wildfire Adapted Partnership

To inspire, motivate, educate and serve individuals, organizations and communities joining together to protect lives and property from wildfire across five southwest counties of Colorado

Public Safety & Disaster

Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture

Aspen Wildfire Foundation

Aspen Wildfire Foundation proactivly reduces the destructive consequences of wildfire in the Aspen fire district and its connected landscapes. Since 2021 their work is in adapting our community toward living with fire.

Public Safety & Disaster

Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

West Region Wildfire Council

Increases resilience to wildfire in Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties in Colorado

Public Safety & Disaster

Independent Women's Forum

Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.

Civil Rights

Arts West

ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.

Arts & Culture

Seminars At Steamboat

To bring nationally and internationally recognized experts on a wide range of public policy issues to the Steamboat community. Seminars are free and open to the public.

Civil Rights

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Colorado Community and the most unlike its peers is The Aspen Institute Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

11%

3,769/33,386

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

24/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$2,756,934Other$2,194,735Environment$750,000Arts & Culture$709,000Education$444,180Philanthropy$82,000Public Benefit$60,000

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.

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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Catto Shaw Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · The Thendara Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Austin Memorial Foundation · The Denver Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation DORNICK 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MANAUS FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 202710588 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MANAUS FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dornick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dornick Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DORNICK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dornick Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

DORNICK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dornick Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph