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The Dorfman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Dorfman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$699kEducation$204kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kAnimals$30kCrime & Legal$17kRecreation & Sports$14kHousing & Shelter$11kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA$11,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$680
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$529
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $208 → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%LEARNING ALLY: $250 → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $10k → 10%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 21 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
25

Total granted

$1.0M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+45%

Still filing today

86%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalHousing & 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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +12%
  • TP
    THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $144k · revenue +39%
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BA
    BlazeSports America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • HT
    HOPE THRU SOAP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +217%
  • UH
    UGA HARTMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
4
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
7
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Cure Rare Disease Inc

Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…

Health
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Movember 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

34 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. 34 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC: $340,052 · HealthUSHER 2020 FOUNDATION INCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCODYLIA THERAPEUTICS INC: $68,000 · HealthODYLIA THERAPEUTICS INC+6 more: $14,037 · HealthTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $143,634 · OtherTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA: $42,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF G…PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $17,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOM…+24 more: $12,382 · Other+24 moreAtlanta Speech School Inc: $59,150 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,258 · Human ServicesBlazeSports America Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $2,100 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,485 · Recreation & SportsHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $2,026 · Food & Nutrition
Health$697,089Other$215,516Education$60,150Human Services$51,258Recreation & Sports$13,585Community Improvement$10,000Food & Nutrition$2,026

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC: $340,052 over 4y, 37% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $143,634 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetODYLIA THERAPEUTICS INC: $68,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $59,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlazeSports America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $5,757 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $2,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $2,026 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,485 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA EQUALITY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $529 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON: $208 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR USHER SYNDROME RESEARCH: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW VILLAGE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSH ONE SEE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Community Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Community Foundation …The Imlay Foundation …The Scott Hudgens Fam…Georgia Power Foundat…Curran - Dorfman Fami…Tull Charitable Found…Tr Uw Charles I BrananAssurant FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Assurant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Dorfman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorfman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Dorfman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Dorfman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 49 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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