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Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$491kYouth Development$162kHuman Services$70kPublic Benefit$50kEmployment$40kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$31kCivil Rights$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOVENES INC$100,000
CHANGE THE AIR FOUNDATION INC$25,000
OC MUSIC & DANCE$25,000
WORTHY BEYOND PURPOSE INC$22,000
DIY GIRLS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN NOW: $13k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $3k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $3k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $3k → 10%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $22k → 14%CHILDREN NOW: $3k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $89k → 14%JOVENES INC: $100k → 14%JOVENES INC: $75k → 14%JOVENES INC: $75k → 14%JOVENES INC: $75k → 14%JOVENES INC: $50k → 14%JOVENES INC: $27k → 14%EVERY CHILD FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$772k · 9 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$772k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-3%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionPublic BenefitArts & CultureEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JI
    JOVENES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $402k · revenue +329%
  • WB
    Worthy Beyond Purpose Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $79k · revenue +106%
  • CT
    CHANGE THE AIR FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALEXANDRIA HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $89k · revenue +12%
  • TR
    THE RICHSTONE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +51%
  • TM
    THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles

Girls inc. of los angeles' mission is to empower the girls of los angeles to tap into their strengths and amplify their talents with pro-girl results-oriented programs, events and advocacy.

Youth Development
2
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
3
Girl Effect Inc

Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…

Youth Development
4
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
5
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership

Girls Leadership Institute, Inc. (Girls Leadership) is a national, educational non-profit with a mission to teach girls to exercise the power of their voice. {continued on Schedule O).

Recreation & Sports
6
Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation

The Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers leadership and entrepreneurship training and development for multicultural women and men. Its focus is on strengthening the US economic…

Education
7
Act for Women and Girls

To engage women of all ages in leadership opportunities that will promote social and personal change.

Education
8
Visionary Women

To engage conversations with innovative leaders funding high impact initiatives for women and girls.

Human Services
9
Women's Foundation of California

Women's foundation of california amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.

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10
Center for Humane Technology

Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.

Science & Tech
11
Women in Institutional Investments Network

Investments network ( wiiin ) is a los angeles based forum for women in institutional investing. wiiin's primary goal is to strengthen relationships and facilitate a dialogue to advance and empower women in the southern california…

Education
12
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty Hill Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOVENES INC: $401,682 · Human ServicesJOVENES INCALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $89,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRIA HOUSEThe Everychild Foundation: $47,700 · Human ServicesThe Everychild FoundationCHILDREN NOW: $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesDIY GIRLS: $80,010 · Youth DevelopmentDIY GIRLSWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc: $79,000 · Youth DevelopmentWorthy Beyond Purpo…CHANGE THE AIR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES: $40,000 · EmploymentORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION - LA GIVING CIRCLE: $16,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER: $2,500 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $12,000 · OtherTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $9,000 · Other+2 more: $1,200 · OtherGrapevine giving foundation: $12,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$582,882Youth Development$159,010Public Benefit$50,000Employment$40,000Arts & Culture$35,000Other$41,200Philanthropy$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOVENES INC: $401,682 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDIY GIRLS: $80,010 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc: $79,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHANGE THE AIR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $47,700 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES: $40,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrapevine giving foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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