· Private foundation
Dorrance Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $707k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +196%- SASEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +101%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- FMFEEDING MATTERS INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -54% · 34% of their budget
- TTThe Trust for Public Landone grant, 2023 · $150k
- KKalamahaleone 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.
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.
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…
Reef Guardians' mission is reef preservation through research, restoration, and education.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Dedicated to the protection of native hawaiian plants, animals, and ecosystems for future generations.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
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…
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…
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…
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;…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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
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.
- Heroes to Heroes Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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