· Private foundation
The Ddora Foundation
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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PELLETTIERI STONE CARVERS' ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOATBUILDING | $20,000 |
| OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,720 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPELLETTIERI STONE CARVERS ACADEMY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +55% · 44% of their budget
- OSOLD STURBRIDGE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +32%
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +23%
Funded once
ROCKING THE BOAT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +57%- ISIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +15%
- ISIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2017 · $20k
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 Landing School effectively prepares men and women for careers in the marine industry as practical designers, builders and systems technicians, who work professionally on today's vessels, adapt to the industry's evolving technology,…
To encourage, inspire and empower young people through the unique craft of wooden boatbuilding and on-the-water experiences.
To offer a comprehensive program engaging communites in hands-on-learning, where basic woodworking and maritime skills converge with environmental stewardship and watershed ecology.
To inspire a lifelong passion for craftmanship through education in woodworking and traditional building trades.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The American College of the Building Arts educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster exceptional craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment, and understanding of the world's architectural heritage…
The Apprenticeshop is a community that cultivates thinkers, makers, and doers through traditional boat building and seamanship to navigate an ever-changing world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
To inspire and educate tomorrows leaders in an extraordinary learning community focused on engineering and design in the marine field.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds FABRIC OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds PELLETTIERI STONE CARVERS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds E-Nable Earth Limited ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ddora Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ddora Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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