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James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 75 grants below total $316,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $363,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k68 grants · $241k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $76k
$3,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Club of Beeville, Inc.$13,500
Save Venice, Inc.$12,500
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,000
After School Arts Program, Inc. (aka ASAP!)$10,000
Island Dolphin Care, Inc.$10,000
Healing with Horses Ranch$10,000
Eanes Education Foundation$10,000
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation$8,750
International Association of Women in Radio and Television$8,000
Healing with Horses Ranch$8,000
Village Center for the Arts, Inc.$7,500
Pilobolus, Inc.$7,500
Camp Esperanza dba Hope House$7,250
Tides Foundation$7,000
Central Texas Food Bank, Inc.$7,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$714k · 62 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
53

Total granted

$714k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+1%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +9%
  • SV
    SAVE VENICE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +50%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $29k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Texas at Austin The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • HS
    HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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2
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
3
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
4
The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal
5
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
6
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
7
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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8
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
9
Homeless Network of Texas

To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief, and non- curring; to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Community Improvement
10
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
11
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
12
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance of Community Trainers. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersFood Pantries and AssistancePublic School District Foun…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…College Foundation SupportUnited Way AffiliatesWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Christian Youth CampsSenior Support ServicesPublic Library SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…Professional Dance CompaniesCivil Legal ServicesChristian Outreach Ministri…Developmental Disabilities …Indigenous Community Develo…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Ymca Community CentersFaith-Based Senior LivingChildhood Cancer SupportCommunity Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%39%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/106
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,698

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.

03the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 142 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/96
Grantees still filing
51/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC — $47,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INCAfter School Arts Program, Inc. (aka ASAP!) — $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas at Austin The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice — $25,000 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $29,000 · Other+81 more — $411,600 · Other+81 moreTIDES FOUNDATION — $47,700 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUND…DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · PhilanthropyDEL MAR COL…ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND MYTHOLOGY — $13,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Med…HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND …COASTAL BEND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL BEN…LAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC — $4,800 · PhilanthropyISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC — $61,000 · HealthISLAND DOL…Driscoll Children's Hospital — $10,500 · HealthDriscoll C…THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $7,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDA…THE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $6,000 · HealthTHE SETTLE…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $5,000 · HealthSAVE VENICE INC — $45,500 · InternationalSAVE VENI…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalHAITIAN H…Save The Children Federation Inc — $8,500 · InternationalSave The …Carmen Pampa Fund — $5,000 · InternationalCarmen Pa…HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $3,500 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $3,000 · International+9 more — $13,750 · International+9 moreHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH — $18,000 · Human ServicesHEALING W…FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $13,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER AN…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING H…MISSION OF MERCY INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesMISSION O…CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CH…Camp Aranzazu Inc — $5,500 · Human ServicesCamp Aran…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE…West Marin Senior Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesWest Mari…THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Human Services+8 more — $12,400 · Human Services+8 moreLA PENA INC — $18,500 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $14,750 · Arts & CultureInternational Media Project — $13,500 · Arts & CulturePILOBOLUS INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR THEOLOGY ETHICS AND RITUAL INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $24,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $10,500 · Food & NutritionBee County Junior Livestock and Homemaker Show, Inc. — $4,500 · Food & NutritionTIMON'S MINISTRIES — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$563,100Philanthropy$106,500Health$94,500International$89,250Human Services$86,400Arts & Culture$65,250Food & Nutrition$41,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC — $61,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $47,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC — $47,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC — $45,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA PENA INC — $18,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH — $18,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $14,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Media Project — $13,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND MYTHOLOGY — $13,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVillage Center for the Arts Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Central Texas — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY TRAINERS — $11,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEanes Education Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $9,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF BEE LIVE OAK & MCMULLEN COUNTIES TEXAS — $9,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE COASTAL BEND — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL BEND INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Marin Senior Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCarmen Pampa Fund — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC — $4,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBee County Junior Livestock and Homemaker Show, Inc. — $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The John G and Marie …The Moody FoundationBehmann Brothers Foun…Austin Community Foun…Coastal Bend Communit…The Rachael and Ben V…Ed Rachal FoundationUnited Way of the Coa…Texas Mutual Insuranc…St David's FoundationTres Grace Family Fou…Allen Lovelace Moore …
The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial FoundationTX39.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · St David's Foundation · Tres Grace Family Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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