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The Doherty Foundation at a glance

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The Doherty Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$375k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$974kArts & Culture$190kEducation$185kHousing & Shelter$165kHuman Services$124kCrime & Legal$105kHealth$76kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$75,000
MILES OF FREEDOM$50,000
TEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC$50,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$40,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$25,000
ST PHILIPS SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
ST PHILIPS SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC$25,000
COMPASS SCHOOL$25,000
COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE$20,000
FOREFRONT LIVING$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSFORMATION HOUSE: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IN
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of The Doherty Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Doherty Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +12%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FB
    FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • AB
    American Battlefield Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +87%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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6
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
7
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
8
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
9
The Foundation for the Constitution

The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.

Social Science
10
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
11
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
12
Trellis Foundation

We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Special Ops Xcursions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Leadership Institute: $367,000 · Public BenefitLeadership InstituteTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $207,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCTEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Public BenefitTEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $40,000 · Public BenefitAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $155,385 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND…TURNING POINT USA INC: $40,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCCOMPASS SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCOMPASS SCHOOL+9 more: $56,500 · Other+9 moreTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMO…American Battlefield Trust: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Ba…FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRONTIERS O…OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $112,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS …SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $51,000 · HealthSIGHT SAVE…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMILES OF FREEDOM: $75,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $30,000 · Crime & LegalFRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS ACADEMIC CENTER: $10,000 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $5,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$939,000Other$351,885Arts & Culture$190,000Health$168,000Crime & Legal$105,000Education$80,000Civil Rights$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeadership Institute: $367,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $207,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $155,385 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $112,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $75,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetTEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $51,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPS XCURSIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS ACADEMIC CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTransformation House: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Doherty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Doherty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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