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Dorrell Farms Foundation

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.

$19k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,588
Organizations funded a year
3 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$296k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Dorrell Farms Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$19k38%
FY202423$10k57%
FY202315$9k53%
FY202210$10k60%
FY20218$10k63%
FY20203$4k33%
FY20197$14k71%
FY20183$7kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$19kHealth$15kYouth Development$13kReligion$10kEnvironment$6kAnimals$5kArts & Culture$5kInternational$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Team Up Philly$16,18362%
Temple Israel of Detroit$9,2975n/a
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc$5,50040%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$3,30020%
Michigan Humane Society$2,62520%
Michigan Animal Rescue League$2,44650%
Eagles Autism Challenge Inc$1,80030%
Garrett's Space$1,61230%
Ecology Center$1,52120%
Givedirectly Inc$1,50020%
Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorrell Farms Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeam Up Philly: $16,183 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMichigan League of Conservation Voters Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $2,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Animal Rescue League: $2,446 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEagles Autism Challenge Inc: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGarrett's Space: $1,612 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Center: $1,521 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $1,307 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Women International: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Threads: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictim Services Center of Montgomery County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Combatants for Peace Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJarc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrt America Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNon-Violence International: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNarberth Community Library: $198 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Dorrell Farms 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.

About Dorrell Farms Foundation

How much does Dorrell Farms Foundation give?
Dorrell Farms Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $19,205 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dorrell Farms Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Health (18%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Dorrell Farms Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Team Up Philly ($16k), Temple Israel of Detroit ($9k), Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc ($6k).
Does Dorrell Farms Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorrell Farms Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorrell Farms Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Dorrell Farms Foundation based?
Dorrell Farms Foundation is based in MI.

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 51 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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