· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY | $25,000 |
| ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| WEATHERFORD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $25,000 |
| LENA POPE | $25,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 168 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMANCHE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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