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Douglas 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$121M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Douglas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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 arriving20$6.1M45%
FY202414$4.4M29%
FY20239$3.1M33%
FY20227$3.8M29%
FY20216$3.5M17%
FY202023$11Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MHuman Services$5.0MReligion$2.8MEducation$2.5MHealth$2.4MArts & Culture$2.3MAnimals$1.0MYouth Development$201kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Peter Douglas Foundation$9,000,000196%
Motion Picture and Television Fund$3,001,38661%
St Lawrence University$2,867,00060%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$2,750,94863%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$2,000,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,000,00010%
Eisenhower Medical Center$1,000,00030%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$852,66220%
Regents of the University of California$600,0002n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles$400,00031%
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All grantees of Douglas Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Peter Douglas Foundation$9,000,000196%
Motion Picture and Television Fund$3,001,38661%
St Lawrence University$2,867,00060%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$2,750,94863%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$2,000,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,000,00010%
Eisenhower Medical Center$1,000,00030%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$852,66220%
Regents of the University of California$600,0002n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles$400,00031%
Lacer Afterschool Programs$300,00034%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$275,00010%
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County$200,00020%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$200,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$125,00010%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$100,00010%
Guide Dogs of the Desert$100,00013%
International City Theatre$85,00032%
HANDS Together A Center for Children$25,0001n/a
St John's Community Health$25,00010%
Concordia Place$25,00010%
The Carter Center Inc$5,00010%
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$5,00010%
Everyones Harvest$5,00011%
Congregation Beth Israel$5,0001n/a
Inglewood Friends Church$1,0001n/a
Boys Republic$1,00010%
Temple Israel of Detroit$1,0001n/a
Spec Labs Inc$1,00011%
The Foundation for AIDS Research$1,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%
Venice Family Clinic$1,00010%
Beverly Hills Firemen's Relief Fund$1,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Douglas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeter Douglas Foundation: $9,000,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetMotion Picture and Television Fund: $3,001,386 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $2,867,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $2,750,948 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $852,662 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles: $400,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLacer Afterschool Programs: $300,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Los Angeles: $275,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Lgbt Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs of the Desert: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetInternational City Theatre: $85,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSt John's Community Health: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia Place: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEveryones Harvest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBoys Republic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpec Labs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVenice Family Clinic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Hills Firemen's Relief Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 28.

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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.

California Community …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community 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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How do I get to Douglas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Douglas 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 Douglas Foundation

How much does Douglas Foundation give?
Douglas Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $6,123,832 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Douglas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Human Services (19%), Religion (11%).
Who are Douglas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Peter Douglas Foundation ($9.0M), Motion Picture and Television Fund ($3.0M), St Lawrence University ($2.9M).
Does Douglas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Douglas 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 Douglas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Douglas Foundation based?
Douglas Foundation is based in CA.

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 45 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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