How much does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation give?

The McLaughlin Doty Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $518,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Arts & Culture (18%), Recreation & Sports (3%).

Who are The McLaughlin Doty Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ah Haa School for the Arts ($268k), Arcadia Live Inc Dba Kerrville's 4th on the River ($203k), Schreiner University ($194k).

Does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The McLaughlin Doty Foundation based?

The McLaughlin Doty Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The McLaughlin Doty Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$518k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 32
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $11,250
Largest grant, FY2025: $97,500
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 50; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $2.4M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The McLaughlin Doty Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$508k	20%
FY2024	32	$590k	16%
FY2023	34	$582k	26%
FY2022	41	$540k	20%
FY2021	47	$716k	36%
FY2020	37	$488k	24%
FY2019	50	$669k	36%
FY2018	42	$557k	40%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.4MArts & Culture$830kRecreation & Sports$136kScience & Tech$38kHealth$37kHuman Services$29kHousing & Shelter$20kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Ah Haa School for the Arts	$267,800	6	3%
Arcadia Live Inc Dba Kerrville's 4th on the River	$203,000	5	10%
Schreiner University	$194,250	9	0%
Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts	$185,000	4	10%
Baylor University	$120,000	9	0%
Duke University	$75,000	4	0%
Fields & Futures Foundation	$63,000	4	2%
Texas Christian University	$58,460	6	0%
Austin College	$55,000	6	0%
Trinity University	$52,500	4	0%

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All grantees of The McLaughlin Doty Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ah Haa School for the Arts	$267,800	6	3%
Arcadia Live Inc Dba Kerrville's 4th on the River	$203,000	5	10%
Schreiner University	$194,250	9	0%
Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts	$185,000	4	10%
Baylor University	$120,000	9	0%
Duke University	$75,000	4	0%
Fields & Futures Foundation	$63,000	4	2%
Texas Christian University	$58,460	6	0%
Austin College	$55,000	6	0%
Trinity University	$52,500	4	0%
Kerrville Public School Foundation	$44,650	7	2%
Liberty University Inc	$33,750	3	0%
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center Inc	$33,625	4	8%
Vanderbilt University	$30,000	4	0%
St Mary's University	$30,000	4	0%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor	$30,000	4	0%
William Marsh Rice University	$30,000	4	0%
Southern Methodist University	$30,000	4	0%
San Miguel Resource Center (Smrc)	$28,500	6	1%
Telluride AIDS Benefit Inc	$27,300	6	3%
Telluride Science	$25,000	1	1%
St Edwards University	$22,500	3	0%
University of Utah	$22,500	3	n/a
Mountainfilm	$20,000	4	0%
Pathnorth Inc	$18,500	3	1%
Hill Country Arts Foundation	$17,500	4	1%
The National Film Preserve Ltd	$17,450	1	n/a
Knct	$16,000	3	n/a
Southwestern University	$15,000	1	0%
Dallas Baptist University	$15,000	2	0%
Concordia University Texas	$15,000	2	0%
World Neighbors Inc	$12,736	3	0%
The Pinhead Institute	$12,500	3	1%
Texas State Technical College	$10,800	2	n/a
Playhouse 2000 Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Hawaii Pacific University	$7,500	1	0%
Macalester College	$7,500	1	0%
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc	$7,500	1	0%
University of the Incarnate Word	$7,500	1	0%
Del Mar College	$7,500	1	n/a
Spring Creek United Methodist Church	$7,500	1	n/a
University of Chicago	$7,500	1	0%
Tyler Junior College	$6,000	1	n/a
Hill Country Youth Orchestras Inc	$5,500	4	1%
Elevate Adult Education Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Circle of Health International	$5,000	1	1%
Mississippi State University	$5,000	1	n/a
American University	$5,000	1	0%
Breast Cancer Resource Center	$5,000	1	0%
Mercy Gate Ministries	$5,000	1	1%
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas	$5,000	1	0%
Telluride Repertory Theatre Company	$5,000	1	1%
The Telluride Medical Center Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Regents of the University of California	$3,750	1	n/a
Southwest School of Art	$3,500	2	0%
The Children's Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis	$2,500	1	0%
First Presbyterian Church	$2,500	1	n/a
Donorschooseorg	$2,215	2	0%
Light on the Hill Mount Wesley	$1,500	1	0%
Hill Country Charity Ball Association Inc	$1,250	1	1%
Kerrville Christmas Lighting Corp	$1,250	1	n/a
Kerrville Festival of the Arts	$1,202	1	2%
League of Women Voters of Oklahoma	$1,000	1	n/a
Texas Public Radio	$1,000	1	0%
New York Academy of Art	$1,000	1	0%
The Doyle School Community Center	$500	1	0%
Kerrville Host Lions Club	$125	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McLaughlin Doty Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt TrustTX28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · Telluride Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · The Dalton Family Foundation · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The McLaughlin Doty Foundation

How much does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation give?: The McLaughlin Doty Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $518,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Arts & Culture (18%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
Who are The McLaughlin Doty Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ah Haa School for the Arts ($268k), Arcadia Live Inc Dba Kerrville's 4th on the River ($203k), Schreiner University ($194k).
Does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McLaughlin Doty Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The McLaughlin Doty Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust, The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc, Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation.
Where is The McLaughlin Doty Foundation based?: The McLaughlin Doty Foundation is based in TX.