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Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$162k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$239kHuman Services$174kEducation$157kCrime & Legal$150kEnvironment$108kCivil Rights$88kHealth$83kYouth Development$72kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
$6,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONOR THE EARTH$15,000
RUSKIN GROUP THEATRE COMPANY$15,000
LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE$15,000
YOUTH ENSEMBLE THEATER INC$15,000
BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS$12,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE INITIATIVE$11,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$10,000
WOMENS VOICES NOW INC$10,000
ADELANTE MUJERES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$5,000
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXAS$5,000
GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT$5,000
BEAUTY OF AFRIKAN SISTERHOOD$5,000
EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC$5,000
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, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Small Seeds Development Inc: $2k → 11%Cambridge Community Center: $5k → 9%DOCTORS OF THE WORLD-USA INC: $5k → 17%Ferguson Youth Initiative: $600 → 11%ADELANTE MUJERES: $15k → 8%RAIN Inc: $5k → 10%The Crusade of Love: $7k → 15%Cambridge Community Center: $10k → 8%Family Counseling Service: $7k → 17%Adelante Mujeres: $12k → 8%RAIN Inc: $5k → 10%The Corpus Christi Area Council For: $5k → 17%Adelante Mujeres: $12k → 8%RAIN: $5k → 10%Partnership with Native Americans: $15k → 14%Adelante Mujeres: $10k → 8%SPOON: $4k → 12%Mary McLeod Bethune Day Nursery Inc: $5k → 17%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%TEXAS NATIVE HEALTH: $2k → 14%Crossover Outreach: $1k → 16%Adelante Mujeres: $10k → 8%Adelante Mujeres: $8k → 8%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $5k → 14%Adelante Mujeres: $6k → 8%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $10k → 17%The Spectrum Works: $5k → 14%Los Angeles House of Ruth: $1k → 14%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

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MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inclessmore 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$791k · 36 repeat orgs$523k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
104

Total granted

$791k
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

78%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • ADELANTE MUJERES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +223%
  • BO
    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
    7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +12%
  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $51k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • JF
    Justice For All Immigrantsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +198%
  • ST
    South Texas Lightshouse for the Bli
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • Partnership With Native Americans
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -6%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
3
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
4
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
5
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
6
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
10
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
11
Center for the study of the Americas

Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Ensemble Theater Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Beauty of Afrikan Sisterhood. 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

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/114
Grantees still filing
78/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $57,000 · OtherBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $50,738 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCRuskin Group Theatre: $42,500 · OtherRuskin Group TheatreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC: $29,500 · OtherLOTT-CANADA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $27,850 · OtherRothko Chapel: $42,500 · OtherRothko Chapel+81 more: $484,306 · Other+81 moreADELANTE MUJERES: $83,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERESFUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER: $22,500 · Human ServicesFUSION-FRIENDS UN…Partnership With Native Americans: $15,282 · Human ServicesPartnership With …RAIN Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesRAIN IncCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+15 more: $58,113 · Human Services+15 moreREED INSTITUTE: $44,661 · EducationREED INST…MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $39,000 · EducationMOUNT SAI…THE BLACKWELL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $9,500 · EducationTHE BLACK…BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $5,000 · EducationANTINANCO EARTH ARTS SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRUSKIN GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $45,800 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $36,600 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCORPUS CHRISTI SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureHONOR THE EARTH: $21,000 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA GREENWORKS INC: $18,500 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $15,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $12,000 · EnvironmentECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $8,500 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $3,500 · Environment+6 more: $5,600 · EnvironmentWomens Voices Now Inc: $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 · InternationalAFARA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalCHOSA INC: $4,200 · International+3 more: $3,000 · InternationalJustice For All Immigrants: $21,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Resource Initiative: $11,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE COASTAL BEND: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$734,394Human Services$213,895Education$109,161Arts & Culture$106,900Environment$89,100International$63,200Crime & Legal$47,000

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 budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $83,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $57,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $50,738 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRUSKIN GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $45,800 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $44,661 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRothko Chapel: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $36,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Voices Now Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC: $29,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIALIZED EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $24,412 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER: $22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJustice For All Immigrants: $21,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $21,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEATH PENALTY FOCUS: $20,200 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA GREENWORKS INC: $18,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $15,282 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSEE STORIES: $15,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetRAIN Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAmerican Forests: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resource Initiative: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Defender Service: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLACKWELL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $9,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $8,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBEAUTY OF AFRIKAN SISTERHOOD: $8,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE CRUSADE OF LOVE: $7,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $6,913 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE COASTAL BEND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE STUDIES ANDCULTURE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

James R Dougherty Jr …Behmann Brothers Foun…The John G and Marie …United Way of the Coa…Alice Kleberg Reynold…Ed Rachal FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…Coastal Bend Communit…Methodist Healthcare …The Moody FoundationAustin Community Foun…San Antonio Area Foun…
James R Dougherty Jr Foundation IncTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc · Behmann Brothers Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Ed Rachal Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dudley T Dougherty Foundation Inc 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 149 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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