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The Dovana 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$721k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$2.5MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$464kHousing & Shelter$306kHealth$278kRecreation & Sports$240kYouth Development$239kAnimals$212kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $721k
$51,495
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Cl A Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$720,670
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$106,451
Individual grant recipient$105,313
MONTANA LAND RELIANCE$104,952
LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$78,571
PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$77,731
PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$77,731
CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER$77,731
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$76,536
SHANE LALANI CENTER FOR THE ARTS$76,536
TAKING THE REINS$75,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$75,000
FRIENDS OF PARK COUNTY$75,000
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION$51,495
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$50,323
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 (FY17–25, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $79k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $75k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $53k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $78k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $11k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $75k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $50k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $10k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $10k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $5k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $4k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $3k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $1k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $53k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $51k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $11k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $4k → 14%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 25 repeat orgs$735k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
4

Total granted

$4.8M
$645k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+29%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +109%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +70%
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $386k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • HA
    HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $622k · revenue +25%
  • DA
    DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +480%
  • CD
    CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +29%

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
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
2
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
3
Prickly Pear Land Trust

To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
5
Save Mount Diablo

Save mount diablo's mission is to preserve mount diablo's peaks, surrounding foothills, and watersheds; and its sustaining diablo range, through land acquisition and preservation strategies designed to protect the mountain's natural…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
7
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
8
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
9
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
10
Marin Horse Council

The marin horse council is dedicated to preserving the historic culture, supporting the presence and ensuring the future of equestrians, horses and horse facilities throughout marin county, california. the council strives to promote and…

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11
Scenic Montana Trails
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12
Montana Audubon

Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to School of Park County and the most unlike its peers is Malibu Mountain Rescue Team Inc. 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 backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire DepartmentsWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Senior Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceYouth Development CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPublic University Foundatio…Classical Music Ensembles
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,531

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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,040,432 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUSTTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $540,261 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $385,796 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INCTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $274,267 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCEPark County Environmental Council — $134,929 · EnvironmentPark County Environmental CouncilFriends of Park County — $130,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $464,006 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF N…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $282,047 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CON…+1 more — $20,000 · EducationHISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC — $622,304 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ANNAPO…The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts — $128,734 · Arts & CultureThe Shane Lalan…+3 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $177,526 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOM…TAKING THE REINS — $157,500 · Human ServicesTAKING THE R…Livingston Healthcare Foundation — $156,258 · Human ServicesLivingston H…THE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $128,921 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT…THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $201,819 · HealthLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $111,838 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient — $159,105 · OtherIndividual…THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherTHE DRESSA…PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $129,522 · OtherPARK COUNT…Montana Outdoor Science School — $63,791 · OtherMontana Ou…MALIBU MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM INC — $38,500 · OtherMALIBU MOU…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $17,000 · Other+5 more — $51,500 · Other+5 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS — $180,000 · Recreation & SportsDRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$2,515,685Education$766,053Arts & Culture$766,038Human Services$620,205Health$323,657Other$509,418Recreation & Sports$190,000

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 budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,040,432 over 4y, 19% of budgetHISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC — $622,304 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $540,261 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $464,006 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $385,796 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $282,047 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $274,267 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $201,819 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS — $180,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $177,526 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTAKING THE REINS — $157,500 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation — $156,258 over 2y, 10% of budgetPark County Environmental Council — $134,929 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of Park County — $130,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $129,522 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $128,921 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shane Lalani Center for the Arts — $128,734 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $111,838 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMontana Outdoor Science School — $63,791 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMALIBU MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM INC — $38,500 over 3y, 39% of budgetFARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPARK COUNTY SENIOR CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMALIBU ADAMSON HOUSE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $2,500 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 Arthur M Blank Fa…Park County Community…Solid Rock Foundation…The Kendeda FundFirst Interstate Banc…McCRUM FUND INCThe Stake FoundationAsis FoundationThe Ferris FoundationGlassybaby FoundationThe McNeely FoundationDennis & Phyllis Wash…
The Arthur M Blank Family FoundationGA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · The Kendeda Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · McCRUM FUND INC · The Stake Foundation · Asis Foundation · The Ferris Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · The McNeely Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 Dovana Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report 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

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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