California · Private foundation
The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,674
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $51k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $62k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $60k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $41k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $26k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $92k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $49k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $50k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph High School | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach | $53,860 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand Vision Foundation | $34,450 | 9 | 1% |
| Long Beach Rotary Charitable Found | $32,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Peninsula Beach Preservation Group Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 15% |
| In Deed and Truth Ministries | $10,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Musical Theatre West | $10,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fisher House Southern California Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Long Beach Community Foundation · John W Hancock Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Temple Family Charitable Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · N Jack and Susan P Dilday Charitable Foundation · The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation · Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach
How this is measured
Compare The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation with peer funders
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About The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation
- How much does The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation give?
- The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $50,874 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (16%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Joseph High School ($65k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach ($54k), Grand Vision Foundation ($34k).
- Does The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Long Beach Community Foundation, John W Hancock Foundation, Bess J Hodges Foundation.
- Where is The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation based?
- The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation is based in CA.
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