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The McLaughlin Doty Foundation at a glance

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The McLaughlin Doty Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$11,250
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$97,500
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$52,500
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - CRPPTPOLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT$40,000
SCHREINER UNIVERSITY$37,500
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY$33,750
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$30,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO$30,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$30,000
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY$26,250
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$18,750
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$17,450
TEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$11,250
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
KERRVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%San Miguel Resource Center: $10k → 7%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 7%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%FAMILIES & LITERACY: $5k → 13%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 7%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%LIGHT ON THE HILL AT MOUNT WESLEY: $2k → 13%DOYLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
MS
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 65 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
52

Total granted

$4.7M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+21%

Still filing today

46%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $268k · revenue +7%
  • AL
    ARCADIA LIVE INC DBA KERRVILLE'S 4TH ON THE RIVER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $203k · revenue ×86
  • SU
    Schreiner University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $194k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TS
    TELLURIDE SCIENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CONCORDE CAREER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • TA
    Texas A&M Kingsville
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
3
Texas Lutheran University

As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see schedule o for continuation of mission statement.

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4
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
5
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
6
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education
7
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
10
Eckerd College

The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…

Education
11
The University of Tulsa

The university of tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. guided by our commitment to diversity,…

Education
12
Mcmurry University

Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schreiner University; the most unlike its peers is Circle of Health International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 124 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
42/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas A&M University: $785,000 · OtherTexas A&M UniversityTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $455,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYThe University of Texas at Austin: $285,000 · OtherThe University of Texas at AustinAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $267,800 · OtherAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $217,500 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $185,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI: $176,250 · OtherThe University of Texas at San Antonio: $165,000 · OtherANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY: $143,881 · OtherTarleton State University: $140,250 · Other+70 more: $932,442 · Other+70 moreSchreiner University: $194,250 · EducationSchreiner Universit…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $58,460 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNI…AUSTIN COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGETrinity University: $52,500 · EducationTrinity UniversityKERRVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $44,650 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $33,750 · EducationVanderbilt University: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $30,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $30,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $30,000 · Education+12 more: $130,715 · Education+12 moreARCADIA LIVE INC DBA KERRVILLE'S 4TH ON THE RIVER: $203,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,250 · PhilanthropyTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $81,500 · Recreation & SportsFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsKERR ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $33,625 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAINFILM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $17,450 · Arts & CultureHILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,202 · Arts & CultureTELLURIDE AIDS BENEFIT INC: $27,300 · HealthBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · HealthTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $2,500 · HealthSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC): $28,500 · Human ServicesELEVATE ADULT EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT ON THE HILL MOUNT WESLEY: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services
Other$3,753,123Education$884,325Philanthropy$204,250Recreation & Sports$144,500Arts & Culture$101,277Health$39,800Human Services$35,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $267,800 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetARCADIA LIVE INC DBA KERRVILLE'S 4TH ON THE RIVER: $203,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetSchreiner University: $194,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $185,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $81,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $58,460 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKERRVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $44,650 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $33,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKERR ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $33,625 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetVanderbilt University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC): $28,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTELLURIDE AIDS BENEFIT INC: $27,300 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTELLURIDE SCIENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSt Edwards University: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATHNORTH INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBORS INC: $12,736 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pinhead Institute: $12,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetELEVATE ADULT EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCircle of Health International: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY GATE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ARCADIA LIVE INC DBA KERRVILLE'S 4TH ON THE RIVER ↗
  • Who funds Schreiner University ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds KERRVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KERR ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC) ↗

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 Peterso…The Community Foundat…Floyd a & Kathleen C …Telluride FoundationEbb Point Foundation-…Community Foundation …The Thomas Phillips a…Just For Kids Foundat…The Dalton Family Fou…Harold Rubenstein Fam…Perry & Ruby Stevens …Tulsa Community Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McLaughlin Doty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McLaughlin Doty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • World Neighbors Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home