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The Mourning Dove Foundation at a glance

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The Mourning Dove Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$103kHealth$94kPhilanthropy$36kEnvironment$25kYouth Development$14kRecreation & Sports$11kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$612k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILIDELPHIA$30,000
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$25,000
DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$8,000
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH$8,000
MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL$5,000
CAMP CRANIUM$5,000
UNIONDOCS INC$2,500
BUTTE FALLS COMMUNITY SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP$2,500
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN$2,500
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$2,000
NYRR TEAM FOR KIDS$1,500
THE TREVOR PROJECT$1,500
FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK$1,000
FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $3k → 6%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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 5 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$185k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-12%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +59%
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k
  • LI
    LIVING ISLANDS NON-PROFIT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +272%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHARLES & ANNE S GENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOSEPHINE MCCABE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -66%
  • GF
    GENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
  • PL
    PEACE LITERACY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
2
Massimo and Chiara Ferragamo Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
The Nicholls Biondi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
6
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
7
Chemists Without Borders

Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…

Science & Tech
8
Woldenberg Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

—
11
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
—
12
The Arsenault Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charles & Anne S Genuardi Family Foundation C/O Josephine Mccabe. 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
6/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $90,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADE…+2 more: $2,000 · HealthACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME: $60,000 · OtherACADEMY OF NOTRE DAMEGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCHDEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherDEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOLMARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $15,000 · Other+9 moreCHARLES & ANNE S GENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOSEPHINE MCCABE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLES & ANN…GENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · PhilanthropyGENUARDI FAMI…LIVING ISLANDS NON-PROFIT: $22,000 · EducationLIVING ISLAND…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of…FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FO…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentWillistow…CAMP CRANIUM: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIREWORK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$92,000Other$96,000Philanthropy$36,000Education$35,000Environment$25,000Youth Development$12,500Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIVING ISLANDS NON-PROFIT: $22,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCHARLES & ANNE S GENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOSEPHINE MCCABE: $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGENUARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP CRANIUM: $7,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFIREWORK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
Santa Barbara FoundationCA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mourning Dove Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mourning Dove Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Butte Falls Community School Partnership: 38% of income from government
  • Living Islands Non-Profit: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Mourning Dove Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mourning Dove Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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