· Private foundation
The Dorf Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust | $8,900 |
| Denison University | $3,000 |
| The Packer Collegiate Institute | $2,500 |
| Pace University | $1,500 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen | $1,000 |
| Collegiate School | $500 |
| Hospice of the Treasure Coast | $300 |
| SPOKES | $300 |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | $300 |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind | $250 |
| Transitions-Mental Health Associati | $250 |
| Clery Center | $250 |
| San Luis Obispo Legal Assistance Fo | $250 |
| Safe Space | $250 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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 Dorf Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 35%.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
- DDANCEUSA8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
- PCPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- FOFRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +76%
- LILONG ISLAND COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 78 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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DANCEUSA ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAGE SEVENTY-THREE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Spokes ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Jeffery and Sasha Szytel Family Foundation · The Brown Family Foundation · Mariner Sands Charity Week Inc · Must · Loblolly Community Foundation Inc · The Albert M Covelli Foundation · The Niner Foundation Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dorf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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