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Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$99k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$43kReligion$34kHealth$25kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$9kCrime & Legal$4kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $94,875, the rows itemized in this filing. The $98,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,025 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$1,850
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New York Presbyterian Fund$25,000
Midland Area Commrunity Foundation$20,000
The Buckley School$10,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$7,500
The Metropolitan Opera$6,000
Mount Vernon Ladies Association$5,000
Convent of the Sacred Heart$5,000
Gatestone Institute$5,000
Coudert Institute$3,000
American Federation of the Arts$1,850
Cental Park Conserancy$1,600
Midland Jewish Community Congregation$1,000
US Friends of the HESC$1,000
The Tikvah Fund Foundation$875
Mackinac Center Legal Foundation$500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 4 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$17k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthScience & TechPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    The Metropolitan Opera
    2× · 2019–2023 · $12k
  • SH
    SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +5%
  • MC
    Mackinac Center Legal Foundation
    2× · 2019–2023 · $1k

Funded once

  • NP
    NY Presbyterian Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TR
    THE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +285%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -61%
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.

03Its 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
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the 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 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NY Presbyterian Fund: $25,000 · OtherNY Presbyterian FundMidland Area Commrunity Foundation: $20,000 · OtherMidland Area Commrunity FoundationThe Metropolitan Opera: $11,500 · OtherThe Metropolitan OperaThe Buckley School: $10,000 · OtherThe Buckley SchoolMount Vernon Ladies Association: $5,000 · OtherCONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART: $5,000 · Other+18 more: $23,675 · Other+18 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $25,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTER…+1 more: $250 · HealthGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL: $4,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,500 · InternationalMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $3,428 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $1,300 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $3,100 · Science & TechLeadership Institute: $1,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTER: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$100,175Health$25,250Education$12,200International$7,500Arts & Culture$4,728Science & Tech$3,100Public Benefit$1,500

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 budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $3,428 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLandmark Legal Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGGINS LAKE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE GRAYLING: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $200 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herbert and Junia Doan 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.

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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $95k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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