· Private foundation
Robert F Dorsey Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| TRIED BY FIRE INC | $1,500 |
| UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE #52 | $500 |
| ROLLING THUNDER CHARITIES | $300 |
| US MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTRIED BY FIRE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +74%
- CFCAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +7%
- JOJOURNEY OF HOPE CAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $1k
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $50k
- WNWESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NAN A R D I N ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRIED BY FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert F Dorsey Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert F Dorsey Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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