· Private foundation
The Doherty Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Doherty Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Servant Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Doherty Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $67k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| MARYS SHELTER INC | $15,495 |
| MARYS SHELTER INC | $15,193 |
| PAUL STEFAN FOUNDATION OF OUR LADYOF GUADALUPE | $5,000 |
| HOLY CROSS ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| MARYS SHELTER INC | $2,500 |
| PAUL STEFAN FOUNDATION OF OUR LADYOF GUADALUPE | $2,000 |
| DOCTOR YUM PROJECT | $1,000 |
| LOISANNS HOPE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS | $1,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG PREGNANCY CENTER | $500 |
| KAREN FRIEDMAN MEMORIAL BASEBALL CAMP FOR A CURE I | $500 |
| FREDERICKSBURG ACADEMY | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +154% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMary's Shelter Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +154%
- BGBAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA2× · 2018–2020 · $30k
- TPTHE PAUL STEFAN FOUNDATION OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- EEMPOWERHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +42%
- HCHOLY CROSS ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- VCVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERSone grant, 2018 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Crisis Pregnancy Center
Martha's House of Hope is a non-profit organization, founded by Roman Catholic individuals committed to providing shelter, life skills and hope to pregnant mothers and their babies; to strive for lives of self-reliance, a sense of service…
Mary's house is a non-profit pregnancy care center funded by contributions, offering any pregnant woman early access to medical care, emotional and spiritual encouragement. mary's house facilitates resources already available in the…
We are a Christ-centered residential care facility for pregnant women in crisis. We offer a safe home that provides shelter, food, prenatal/postpartum care, spiritual, mental, financial, rides to medical appointments, educational and…
Annies home is a caring community that empowers pregant and parenting women to take positive and effective action on behalf of themselves and their children by providing physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional support.
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
Grounded in the gospel and in the culture of life of the catholic church, visition house is a home that welcomes women in crisis pregnancies in the spirit of elizabeth, who welcomed her cousin the virgin mary with awe-filled joy and true…
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Provide a home and care for unwed pregnant girls
Mary's home seeks to provide a faith-based transitional pathway leading expectant women and new mothers to a life of self-sufficiency and dignity for themselves and their babies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowerhouse and the most unlike its peers is Mary's Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · McCommons Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Doherty 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.
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.