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The Dougherty Family 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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$784kReligion$230kEducation$89kHuman Services$61kInternational$55kYouth Development$46kCivil Rights$15kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$210k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES$7,500
THE CURETIVITY FOUNDATION$6,000
ST PATRICK CHURCH$5,100
HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL$3,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$3,500
THE SISTERS SERVANTS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY$3,000
ASPCA$2,500
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$2,000
MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,500
MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA$1,500
CHARITY SMITH NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MEMORIAL FUNDS$1,100
CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL$1,050
SAINT PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL$1,000
THE FATHER BILL ATKINSON SERVICE CORPS CENTER$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FATHER CHUCK'S CHALLENGE: $8k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS: $4k → 7%FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS: $3k → 7%FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS: $3k → 7%FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS: $3k → 7%FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS: $3k → 7%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 39 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
20

Total granted

$1.2M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+48%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LS
    LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +739%
  • PM
    PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +59%
  • CV
    COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $69k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Calvary Hospital Inc

The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…

Health
5
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
6
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

7
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

8
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
11
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesVeteran Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Faith-Based Senior LivingFood Pantries & AssistanceIndependent K-8 SchoolsHomeless Services & ShelterSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health Centers
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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr17%46%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,113

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

43 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $250,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INCPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 · HealthPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $69,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $60,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $45,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $26,000 · Health+8 more — $72,000 · Health+8 moreST PATRICK CHURCH — $143,850 · OtherST PATRICK CHURCHHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $28,500 · OtherHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INCST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY — $26,000 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARYAMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE — $22,550 · OtherAMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGEST JOHN THE EVANGELIST — $20,000 · OtherST JOHN THE EVANGELISTSISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY — $20,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART…+29 more — $107,562 · Other+29 moreACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES — $40,761 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $5,150 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS FOR FRIENDS — $13,500 · Human ServicesFATHER CHUCK'S CHALLENGE — $8,200 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,200 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $20,500 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $2,000 · Public BenefitTravis Manion Foundation — $12,000 · PhilanthropyHANSEN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN — $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $1,050 · Philanthropy
Health$772,500Other$368,462Education$73,411Youth Development$40,000Human Services$25,900Public Benefit$22,500Philanthropy$20,050

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 budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $250,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $69,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $60,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES — $40,761 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $28,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS FOR FRIENDS — $13,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $12,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance — $6,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Curetivity Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $5,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $4,635 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $2,030 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALIGHT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE DUCHENNE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY17.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Daniels Family Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Chubb Charitable 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 Dougherty 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Hansen Foundation Inc25% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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