· Private foundation
The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG BEACH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $7,674 |
| CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER LONG BEACH | $3,500 |
| LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH | $2,500 |
| GRAND VISION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LONG BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH | $2,500 |
| PENINSULA BEACH PERSERVATION GROUP DBA PENINSULA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| MUSCIAL THEATRE WEST | $2,500 |
| LONG BEACH CAMERATA SINGERS | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +164%
- GVGRAND VISION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +123%
- PBPENINSULA BEACH PRESERVATION GROUP INC7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -80%
- LBLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -8%
- PSPBS SOCALone grant, 2023 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
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 los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The long beach public library foundation provides support to enhance the long beach public library and encourages literacy and education for all members of the community.
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…
The foundation awards scholarship grants to assist laguna beach high school graduates in pursuing educational goals at various post high school academic levels.
The mission of rancho los alamitos foundation is public education in the broadest possible sense. the foundation uses the historic site, its history and resources to explore the story of the site in relation to the region, state, nation…
Advancing the economic climate of the community and the quality of life for the citizens of the city of laguna beach
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Gold Star Manor. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds GRAND VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUND ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA BEACH PRESERVATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds IN DEED AND TRUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds TICHENOR ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALATUS AEROSYSTEMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICA ANGELICA ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION SPORTS KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMINENT GIVING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 Gordon and Ruth Dougherty 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.
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.
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