How much did THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION reported 33 grants totaling $105,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION based?

THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION is based in MA.

THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$106k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$218kAnimals$79kHuman Services$76kEducation$63kEnvironment$27kHealth$12kOther$299k

02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $71k
$10k–50k3 grants · $35k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD$10,000
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY$8,000
HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE$7,500
YMCA$7,000
BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP$5,000
MASS MOCA$3,500
MICHAEL J FOX FDN$3,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$2,500
CLARK ART INSTITUTE$2,000
CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY$2,000
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM$2,000
GUTHRIE CENTER$2,000
BERKSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$758k · 32 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$758k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+10%

Still filing today

50%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthOther

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

VH
VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +166%
BH
BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +155%
BS
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY
7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +20%

Funded once

ES
ELEANOR SONSINI ANIMAL SHELTER
one grant, 2017 · $5k
K
KRIPALA
one grant, 2017 · $2k
IA
IS183 ART SCHOOL OF BERKSHIRES
one grant, 2018 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare theatre company creates world-class (see schedule o for continuation)

Arts & Culture

Gloucester Stage Company Inc

The gloucester stage mission is to present the highest quality professonal theatrical productions and thus contribute to the cultutal, economic and educational development of cape ann.

Arts & Culture

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Bow Street Theatre Trust

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Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham

Arts & Culture

The Beverly Theater Llc

Arts & Culture

Shaker Bridge Theatre Inc

To foster and support the performing arts in the upper valley and lakes region of new hampshire

Arts & Culture

Two River Theatre Company Inc

To create great american theater by developing and producing new works and world masterpieces. please see schedule o for continuation of full mission statement.

Arts & Culture

The Theater At Monmouth

The mission of theater at monmouth is to present innovative approaches to shakespeare and other classic plays through professional productions that enrich the lives of people throughout the state of maine.

Arts & Culture

American Shakespeare Center

To advance understanding, imagination, and community by illuminating shakespeare through performance, research, and education in the blackfriars playhouse and beyond.

Arts & Culture

Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Manhattan theatre club, inc. is a leading producer of new works along with significant revivals.

Arts & Culture

The Harbor Stage Company Inc

Artistic production; community based performing arts

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrington Stage Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michael J Fox Foundation. 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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$299,330Arts & Culture$217,752Animals$78,500Human Services$75,500Education$63,150Environment$26,750Health$11,500

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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic CommunityMA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Berkshire United Way Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Claudia K Perles Family · Aquidneck Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Community Foundation of Western

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 organisation THE DOBBINS 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043246666 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Dobbins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dobbins Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Dobbins Foundation?

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THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Dobbins Foundation?

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