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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$400,000
ORGANIZING INSTITUTE SOUTH AND WEST IAF$250,000
VALLEY SETTLEMENT$250,000
ENGLISH IN ACTION$160,000
ASPEN MOUNTAIN ARTIST RESIDENCY$100,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$65,000
COLORADO INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LIFE$50,000
THE ART BASE$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
CORBA - CONCERNED OFF-ROAD BICYCLISTS$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN BIKING COALITION: $10k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 13 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+28%

Still filing today

77%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $993k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • M
    Manaus
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +210% · 88% of their budget
  • VS
    VALLEY SETTLEMENT
    2× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +26%
  • TA
    The Art Base
    2× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SI
    SOUTHWEST INTERFAITH EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $308k
  • IE
    Interfaith Education Fund Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -99%
  • TM
    THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +302%
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
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
2
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
3
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
4
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Alpine Watershed Group

Watershed collaboration and stewardship

Environment
7
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition- International

ISET-International catalyzes transformative changes toward a more resilient and equitable future. Through research, training and implementation activities, we improve understanding and elevate the level of dialog and practice as society…

Environment
8
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
9
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
10
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
11
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
12
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is I Stand With My Pack Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 46 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Manaus: $2,456,934 · Community ImprovementManausColorado Institute for Public Life: $300,000 · Community ImprovementColorado Institute for Public LifeSOUTHWEST INTERFAITH EDUCATION FUND: $308,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST INTERFAITH EDUCATION FUN…UNITED WAY BUNCOMBE COUNTY: $255,000 · OtherUNITED WAY BUNCOMBE COUNTYInterfaith Education Fund Inc: $250,000 · OtherInterfaith Education Fund IncRFCDC: $250,000 · OtherRFCDCHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $150,000 · OtherHenderson County & Thermal Belt Ha…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYASPEN MOUNTAIN ARTIST RESIDENCY LLC: $100,000 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $93,000 · OtherMVP Education Fund: $85,000 · OtherMICAH: $76,146 · Other+18 more: $429,589 · Other+18 moreROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $400,000 · EnvironmentROARING FORK…ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $350,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER…+2 more: $28,000 · EnvironmentOrganizing Institute South and West IAF: $250,000 · Arts & CultureOrganizing …THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOSAIC …The Art Base: $86,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art Bas…Aspen Journalism: $73,000 · Arts & CultureAspen Journ…THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS CA…VALLEY SETTLEMENT: $274,180 · EducationEnglish in Action: $160,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for SW Washington: $16,000 · PhilanthropyHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $80,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$2,756,934Other$2,146,735Environment$778,000Arts & Culture$709,000Education$444,180Philanthropy$82,000Housing & Shelter$80,000

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

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 budgetWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

Aspen Community Found…The Thrift ShopColorado Gives Founda…Alpenglow FoundationRose Community Founda…Catto Shaw FoundationAspen Business Center…The Thendara Foundati…Brady FoundationErnst and Wilma Marte…The Flunison FundRuth a Carver Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dornick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dornick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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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.

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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