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James a Dooley Foundation at a glance

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James a Dooley 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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 2025.

Religion$40kYouth Development$30kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$15kEducation$15kEnvironment$15kAnimals$12kPublic Benefit$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$148k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO BALLET$5,000
KNICK O'TIME HORSE RESCUE & REHAB$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 6%OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 6%OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 6%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 15 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$160k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+53%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • EN
    EWTN NEWS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • CB
    COLORADO BALLET
    2× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • FH
    FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +462%
  • JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -63%
  • INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +53%
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
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
2
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
Grand Teton Association

The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."

Arts & Culture
5
Arts Council of Big Sky

To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.

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6
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
7
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
9
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
10
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
11
Colorado Children's Chorale

The mission of the colorado children's chorale is to share professional choral music with the global community by training excellent young performers.

Arts & Culture
12
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ozaukee Family Services 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUI-RHYTHM: $15,250 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUI-RHYTHMSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLSTHREE HOLY WOMEN CATHOLIC PARISH: $15,000 · OtherTHREE HOLY WOMEN CATHOLIC PARISHKNICK O'TIME HORSE RESCUE REHAB: $6,000 · OtherKNICK O'TIME HORSE RESCUE REHABCHARLES E KUBLY FUND INC: $6,000 · OtherCHARLES E KUBLY FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKNICK O'TIME HORSE RESCUE & REHAB: $5,000 · OtherKNICK O'TIME HORSE RESCUE & REHAB+3 more: $4,000 · Other+3 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB …EWTN NEWS INC: $25,000 · ReligionEWTN NEWS INCCOLORADO BALLET: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO B…BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER PH…JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN MICHA…THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsROCKY MOUNTAIN DRESSAGE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsGOALS: $9,000 · EnvironmentOZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$71,250Youth Development$30,000Religion$25,000Arts & Culture$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Environment$9,000Human Services$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEWTN NEWS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOALS: $9,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetOZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 James a Dooley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James a Dooley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to James a Dooley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James a Dooley 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 19 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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