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Judith Rauenhorst Doerr Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELS | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $40,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC | $16,250 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF VENICE INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $2,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY | $1,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| THE BASILICA LANDMARK | $500 |
| WHITEFISH CHAIN YACHT CLUB INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MMMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART3× · 2017–2019 · $101k · revenue +494%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +8%
- MUMarquette University6× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REY JESUIT MILWAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $100k
THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -49%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +24%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To provide for women the best undergraduate residential liberal arts education along with select graduate programs, in the catholic and benedictine traditions. the college fosters integrated learning, exceptional leadership for change and…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Minnesota Museum of American Art. 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 49 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TeamLift Inc ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH AREA PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASILICA LANDMARK ↗
- Who funds GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Judith Rauenhorst Doerr Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% 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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