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The Doering Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$409kHuman Services$280kEducation$167kEmployment$117kYouth Development$99kCrime & Legal$66kFood & Nutrition$51kHousing & Shelter$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARENTSCAN$5,000
NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COPE FAMILY CENTER$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN$5,000
CURIOYDYSSEY AT COYOTE POINT$5,000
IF GIVEN A CHANCE$5,000
CASA$5,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING$5,000
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES SUCCEEDING$5,000
QUEEN OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION$5,000
SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN NOR CAL$4,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$4,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $3k → 5%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $2k → 5%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%A Precious Child: $2k → 5%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE EAST BAY: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE EAST BAY: $3k → 9%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%Hospice of the East Bay: $3k → 9%MY NEW RED SHOES: $2k → 8%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $1k → 10%BANANAS INC: $2k → 10%BANANAS INC: $1k → 10%Bananas Inc: $1k → 10%My New Red Shoes: $4k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $4k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $4k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $4k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $3k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $3k → 7%My New Red Shoes: $2k → 7%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%KAINOS HOME AND TRAINING CENTER: $3k → 7%CASA A Voice for Children: $5k → 9%CASA A Voice for Children: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
WI
IN
OH
CA
CO
AZ
TN
DC
FL

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.

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.
$1.4M · 68 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+266%

Still filing today

54%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsEmploymentOther

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

  • JM
    JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +163%
  • PW
    People with Disabilities Succeeding
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +65%
  • CF
    Cope Family Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • AC
    Alameda County Community Food Center
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +266%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

1
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
4
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
7
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
8
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County

We are a catalyst of equitable transformation, aligning partners and resources to implement values-based, data-driven, community-led solutions that help families reach their full potential. our vision - we see sonoma county transformed…

Community Improvement
9
Junior Achievement of Northern California

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. junior achievement programs correlate between the common core and california content standards. ja's proven volunteer-based delivery model merged with the latest…

International
10
Napa County Land Trust

The mission of the land trust of napa county is to preserve the character of napa county by permanently protecting land. the organization's vision is the protection of unique natural resources, proactive preservation of the scenic beauty,…

Environment
11
Compass Family Services

Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.

Human Services
12
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Napa Valley Child Advocacy Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Napalearns (the Napa Valley Partnership for 21ST Century Education). 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsFamily Mental Health Servic…Youth Sports LeaguesFraternal and Masonic OrdersFamily Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing for Vuln…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr12%19%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
12%
4,693/40,294

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Resources for Children — $43,500 · OtherCommunity Resources for ChildrenSMILE TRAIN INC — $36,000 · OtherLUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S FUND — $34,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Food Bank - San Mateo County — $33,000 · OtherCANV Community Action of Napa Valley — $32,000 · OtherNAPALEARNS (THE NAPA VALLEY PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION) — $29,000 · OtherShriner's Hospital for Children — $28,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army — $28,000 · OtherCommunity Employment Services — $27,500 · OtherGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $27,000 · OtherCuriOdyssey at Coyote Point — $25,000 · OtherEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION — $32,000 · Other+46 more — $345,500 · Other+46 moreJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $150,100 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDA…NAPA VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $43,500 · HealthNAPA VALLEY CHILD ADVOC…PENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $37,500 · HealthPENINSULA FAMILY CONNEC…QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $31,000 · HealthQUEEN OF THE VALLEY MED…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $28,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESE…+1 more — $8,000 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION — $36,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESC…CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN — $33,500 · Human ServicesCASA A VOICE …EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesEAST BAY INTE…MBOLDEN CHANGE — $25,500 · Human ServicesMBOLDEN CHANG…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $6,500 · Human Services+3 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesPeople with Disabilities Succeeding — $49,000 · EmploymentJOBTRAIN INC — $35,000 · EmploymentIF GIVEN A CHANCE — $43,500 · EducationREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $26,500 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationCope Family Center — $43,500 · Crime & LegalFriends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $4,000 · Crime & LegalCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $43,000 · Food & NutritionAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$720,500Health$298,100Human Services$171,500Employment$84,000Education$72,000Crime & Legal$47,500Food & Nutrition$46,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $150,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPeople with Disabilities Succeeding — $49,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCope Family Center — $43,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetIF GIVEN A CHANCE — $43,500 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children — $43,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $43,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $43,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $37,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION — $36,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC — $35,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN — $33,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetQUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAPALEARNS (THE NAPA VALLEY PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION) — $29,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC — $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $27,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $26,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE — $25,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY — $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWARDROBE FOR OPPORTUNITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBANANAS INCORPORATED — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS MAMMOTH — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Christian Ministry in the National Parks — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds People with Disabilities Succeeding ↗
  • Who funds Cope Family Center ↗
  • Who funds IF GIVEN A CHANCE ↗
  • Who funds Community Resources for Children ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAPALEARNS (THE NAPA VALLEY PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION) ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MBOLDEN CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Community Foundation …McNabb FoundationNapa Valley Vintners …Gordon E and Betty I …Atkinson FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…The David and Lucile …Peter a & Vernice H G…Craig and Kathryn Hal…Silicon Valley Commun…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA29.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · McNabb Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 The Doering Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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