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· Private foundation
JOHN&EILEEN DOHERTY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$400k
Granted FY2025
40
Grants
7
Communities
$32k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of JOHN&EILEEN DOHERTY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
suppliesscholarshiprescuecatholic churchanimalflorence
2020
suppliesscholarshipcatholic church
2021
supplies
2022
suppliesarts
2023
jude's children'sfood
2024
norfolk artsfood
2025
foodmary'scatholic church
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 40 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $330k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NORFOLK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$32,000
- ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S$30,000
- ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
- DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
- YMCA CAMP KITAKI$15,000
- NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY$12,000
- NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA$11,000
- NORTHEAST NEBRASKA SHOOTING ASSOC$10,000
- ST ANTHONY PARISH SCHOOL$10,000
- LIED PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
- SALVATION ARMY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
- ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$10,000
- CROFTON VOLUNTEER$10,000
- SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 67 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
67
25
Total granted
$2.1M
$185k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+40%
+27%
Still filing today
27%
28%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $116k · revenue +38%
- RCRIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +73%
- SMST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NCNORFOLK CATHOLIC MUSIC BOOSTERSone grant, 2022 · $45k
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +93%- SSSCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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Greater Fredericksburg Habitat
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. greater fredericksburg habitat for humanity…
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2
Habitat for Humanity of North Central Iowa
The purpose of the organizion is to create decent, affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
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3
Habitat for Humanity of Franklin
Habitat for humanity of franklin county, virginia, inc. seeks to put god's love into action, bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope to franklin county, virginia.
Housing & Shelter
4
Fayetteville Area Habitat for
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. a safe, decent place to live is the cornerstone of a strong community. our vision is a world where everyone has a…
Housing & Shelter
5
Habitat for Humanity of New Castle
We put god's love into action by building homes, communities and hope.
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6
Nebraska Humane Society
The nebraska humane society is committed to the protection of animals. the society provides education, gives sanctuary to animals, encourages adoption of animals, and promotes responsible pet ownership.
Animals
7
Greenest
To provide furniture for people transitioning out of homelessness into stable housing.
Human Services
8
Fuller Center for Housing
Fuller center for housing of norfolk works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in…
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9
Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity wicomico adheres to a…
Housing & Shelter
10
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Watertown Region
Seek to put gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Housing & Shelter
11
Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission
We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.
Religion
12
Dorchester Habitat for Humanity Inc
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3)…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Direct Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,533
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.
05the grantee network
27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,881,229Education$280,000Philanthropy$56,000Health$42,740International$40,000Animals$37,000Arts & Culture$27,000
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 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOR THE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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.
Nebraska Community FoundationNE15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation JOHN&EILEEN DOHERTY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FOR THE GIRLS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 460972709 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FOR THE GIRLS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to John&Eileen Doherty Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to John&Eileen Doherty Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines