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Dorrance Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$12MEnvironment$10MPhilanthropy$6.6MHealth$2.2MAnimals$2.0MArts & Culture$1.0MCommunity Improvement$840kFood & Nutrition$535kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $699k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Arizona State University Foundation$1,000,000
National Audubon Society$545,000
WILDCOAST$500,000
The Kohala Center$377,738
Northern Chumash Tribal Council$200,000
San Diego Coastkeeper$169,000
Teammates for Kids Foundation$164,476
Hawaii Community Foundation$150,000
Resources Legacy Fund$150,000
Na Kalai Wa'a$130,000
North Kohala Community Resource Center$124,836
Sequoia Parks Conservancy$105,000
Kalanihale$100,500
Ocean Defenders Alliance$100,000
The Trust for Public Land$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $14k → 14%Foothill Family: $50k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $50k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $20k → 14%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%Fresh Start Women's Foundation: $25k → 11%KAILAPA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%KAILAPA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%KAILAPA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $4k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $1k → 11%notMYkid: $50k → 11%NOTMYKID: $45k → 11%NOTMYKID: $35k → 11%NOTMYKID: $25k → 11%notMYkid: $25k → 11%NOTMYKID: $25k → 11%NOTMYKID: $25k → 11%NOTMYKID: $25k → 11%notMYkid: $15k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 34% of Dorrance Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Dorrance Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 109 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

109 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
97

Total granted

$28M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+37%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $707k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +196%
  • SA
    SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +101%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • FM
    FEEDING MATTERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -54% · 34% of their budget
  • TT
    The Trust for Public Land
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • K
    Kalamahale
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

1
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
2
Reef Guardians Hawaii

Reef Guardians' mission is reef preservation through research, restoration, and education.

Environment
3
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
4
Hoala Kealakekua Nui Inc

Ho'ala kealakekua nui, inc. (hkn) is a native hawaiian-driven nonprofit corporation committed to implementing traditional methods of environmental stewardship and restoration, education and outreach, and cultural preservation at the wahi…

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Conservation Council for Hawaii

Dedicated to the protection of native hawaiian plants, animals, and ecosystems for future generations.

Environment
7
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
8
Kipuka Kuleana Inc

The mission of Kipuka Kuleana Inc. is to perpetuate ahupuaa (traditional Hawaiian land division) based natural resource management & connection to place through protection and care of cultural landscapes and family lands. Kipuka Kuleana…

Environment
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Tri-Isle Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

To identify problems in natural resources and support community-based and identified projects that protect, preserve and develop island communities with a focus on maui county through the implementation, management and fiscal sponsorship…

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11
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

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12
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Catsnip Hawaii. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Construc…Cancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Equine Therapy ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Christian Youth CampsDance Arts OrganizationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/181
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,384

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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 226 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/173
Grantees still filing
126/173
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $9,177,500 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION F…SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $1,355,177 · EducationSEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,140,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL+17 more — $749,250 · Education+17 moreARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,917,305 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FO…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $582,462 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOU…+4 more — $233,476 · PhilanthropyTHE KOHALA CENTER — $809,737 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA CENTEROCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE — $731,250 · EnvironmentOCEAN DEFENDERS AL…SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY — $656,500 · EnvironmentSEQUOIA PARKS CONS…WILDCOAST — $582,500 · EnvironmentWILDCOASTSierra Foothill Conservancy — $516,500 · EnvironmentSierra Foothill Co…RESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $500,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY F…SAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER — $311,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $274,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $250,000 · EnvironmentHABITS OF WASTE — $245,000 · EnvironmentWAIORG INC — $221,842 · Environment+25 more — $1,265,897 · Environment+25 moreNational Audubon Society — $2,042,561 · OtherNational Audubon Socie…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $327,750 · OtherHawaii Island Land Trust — $300,000 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $781,500 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATIONNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $568,584 · OtherNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY…NOTMYKID — $310,000 · Other+81 more — $3,082,869 · Other+81 moreFEEDING MATTERS INC — $500,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $340,000 · HealthMINI THERAPY HORSES — $285,433 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $281,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $201,456 · HealthTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $178,736 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation — $125,000 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $112,500 · Health+10 more — $176,000 · HealthAmerican Bird Conservancy — $544,000 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $285,000 · AnimalsHAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER — $252,750 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $167,141 · AnimalsHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $80,750 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Animals+12 more — $245,250 · AnimalsNA KALAI WA'A — $256,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $201,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET ARIZONA — $169,714 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — $135,000 · Arts & CultureKAMUELA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — $125,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $110,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $77,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$12,421,927Philanthropy$6,733,243Environment$6,364,226Other$7,413,264Health$2,350,125Animals$1,649,891Arts & Culture$1,115,214

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $9,177,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,917,305 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $1,355,177 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,140,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER — $809,737 over 5y, 12% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $781,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE — $731,250 over 8y, 36% of budgetSEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY — $656,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetWILDCOAST — $582,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $582,462 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $568,584 over 8y, 25% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $544,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy — $516,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $340,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $327,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER — $311,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNOTMYKID — $310,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetMINI THERAPY HORSES — $285,433 over 6y, 81% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $285,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $281,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $274,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetKALANIHALE — $270,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetNA KALAI WA'A — $256,500 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetHAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER — $252,750 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITS OF WASTE — $245,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetWAIORG INC — $221,842 over 2y, 14% of budgetNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $201,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $201,456 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $178,736 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA — $169,714 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $167,141 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $164,476 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS — $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — $135,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC — $134,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL — $130,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE — $127,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKAMUELA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — $125,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetFoothill Family Service — $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $112,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKOHALA INSTITUTE — $107,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetKAHUA PAA MUA INC — $106,500 over 4y, 12% of budget
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.

  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Foothill Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds NOTMYKID ↗
  • Who funds MINI THERAPY HORSES ↗
  • Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE ↗
  • Who funds KALANIHALE ↗
  • Who funds NA KALAI WA'A ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
  • Who funds WAIORG INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Atherton Family Found…PatagoniaorgCooke Foundation Limi…Arizona Community Fou…The Healy FoundationTrustees of the Estat…Resources Legacy FundWill J Reid FoundationThe Diane and Bruce H…Thunderbirds CharitiesStupski FoundationVirginia G Piper Char…
Atherton Family FoundationHI44.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Cooke Foundation Limited · Arizona Community Foundation · The Healy Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Resources Legacy Fund · Will J Reid Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Stupski Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable 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 organization Dorrance Family Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dorrance Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dorrance Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 226 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines