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Harry and Misook Doolittle Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Harry and Misook Doolittle Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$541kReligion$132kAnimals$27kRecreation & Sports$20kInternational$17kHuman Services$11kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$912k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAHNG WUN SA A KOREAN BUDDHIST TEMPLE INC$15,000
MUSIMSA TEMPLE$6,000
LJS MUSIC STORY INC$5,000
GLOBAL CHILDREN$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 13%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $600 → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$662k · 14 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$662k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
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

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +21%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • TK
    The Korean American Family Service Center Inc
    2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • WG
    WESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -24%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +150%
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
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
The Glyndebourne Association America Inc co Richard Block
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3
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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4
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Inc

To support the financial future of the london philharmonic orchestra's concerts, exclusive events, and tours in the united states and the united kingdom.

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5
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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6
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
7
American Friends of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

To perform and educate the public about classical music and other musical genres. to promote the educational efforts of the royal philharmonic orchestra and similar classical music organizations. (see schedule o).the american friends of…

Arts & Culture
8
Arco Collaborative Inc

ARCO Collaborative is a nonprofit founded byJennifer Koh in 2014 that commissions, develops, and produces new musical works that bring forth stories previously unheard in western art forms

Arts & Culture
9
American London Symphony Orchestra Foundation

For the support and benefit of the london symphony orchestra, and to arrange for public orchestral concerts given in the united states by both domestic and foreign orchestras and musicians.

International
10
American Friends of Grange Park Opera Foundation

Assist in funding of the arts by making contributions to various charities and foundations whose primary mission is support of the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Florentine Opera Company Inc

The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Covent Garden the Royal Ballet Inc; the most unlike its peers is Westchester Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,505,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK+1 more: $20,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $181,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN O…CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS: $97,500 · OtherCHURCH OF ST J…WONKAKSA: $27,000 · OtherWONKAKSAST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherST JAMES THE L…LJS MUSIC STORY INC: $25,000 · OtherLJS MUSIC STOR…SAHNG WUN SA A KOREAN BUDDHIST TEMPLE INC: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $39,000 · Other+7 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $177,935 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHAR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC: $65,900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FR…AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $29,170 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $16,000 · InternationalThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $10,600 · Human ServicesCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE JEFFREY AHN JR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,525,000Other$409,500Arts & Culture$319,005International$16,000Human Services$10,600Health$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,505,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $177,935 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC: $65,900 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOREA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Versailles Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJONAH BOKAER ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC: $5,470 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLYNDEBOURNE AMERICA INC CO THE LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD M BLOCK: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEFFREY AHN JR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harry and Misook Doolittle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry and Misook Doolittle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 28 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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