· Private foundation
John&Eileen Doherty Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k16 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| NORFOLK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA | $10,000 |
| ETV ENDOWMENT OF SC | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK EASTERN SHORE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $10,000 |
| TINTERN RETREAT CENTER | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA | $10,000 |
| ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +83% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2026, 43 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $143k · revenue +143%
- RCRIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL10× · 2017–2026 · $89k · revenue +106%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NCNORFOLK CATHOLIC MUSIC BOOSTERSone grant, 2022 · $45k
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +94%- 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.
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
To reduce the need in our community for the sheltering of companion animals and to provide the highest quality of care and adoptions when sheltering animals is necessary.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The mission of northshore health centers is to provide the most comprehensive and quality healthcare, without exclusion, to everyone, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Golden Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte Inc. 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 35 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 104 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 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FOR THE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY EFFECT ↗
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.
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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 organization 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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