· Private foundation
James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $491k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| DOSS HERITAGE AND CULTURAL CENTER | $450,000 |
| WEATHERFORD CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| JPS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROJECT OPPORTUNITY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $25,000 |
| LENA POPE | $25,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER | $25,000 |
| WEATHERFORD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +1%
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +26%- CFCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +316%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - TEXAS BIG COUNTRY CHAPTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
- COCENTER OF HOPE OF PARKER COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grace & Orville Ritzman Childrens Fund Co Alice Ritzman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 168 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds JPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BOTANICAL GARDENS AND NA AMERICAN INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMANCHE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · R4 Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Morris Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.