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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 it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Resources Legacy Fund$150,000
Hawaii Community Foundation$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
Aquarium of the Pacific$100,000
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 (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 its 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
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

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 34% of Dorrance Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 33%.

Dorrance Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

+57%
+38%

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
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

  • 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
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
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;…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

173 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. 173 of the 226 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/173
Grantees still filing
125/173
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+82 more: $3,085,369 · Other+82 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+11 more: $242,750 · 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$7,415,764Health$2,350,125Animals$1,647,391Arts & Culture$1,115,214

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS: $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% 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
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.

  • 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 AKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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

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 Dorrance Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorrance Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 226 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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