· Private foundation
The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG BEACH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $7,674 |
| CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER LONG BEACH | $3,500 |
| LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MUSCIAL THEATRE WEST | $2,500 |
| UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LONG BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH | $2,500 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| GRAND VISION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH | $2,500 |
| PENINSULA BEACH PERSERVATION GROUP DBA PENINSULA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| EMINENT GIVING INITIATIVE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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