· Private foundation
Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR NORMAN SHUMWAY ENDOWED FAMILY OF FUNDS | $145,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SPCA | $75,000 |
| MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $30,000 |
| CURI ODYSSEY (FORMERLY COYOTE POINT MUSEUM) | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $25,000 |
| SUPPORTERS OF THE DOELGER SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| All May See Foundation | $15,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $10,000 |
| DALY CITY YOUTH HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| Alive & Free | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 81% of Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TSTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS7× · 2019–2025 · $525k · revenue +48%
- MHMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $525k · revenue +67%
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TMThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundationone grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
- LSLarkin Street Youth Servicesone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the mental health association of san francisco is to cultivate peer leadership, build community, and advance social justice in mental health.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is Parca Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MID-PENINSULA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF DALY CITY ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CAMINAR ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SKYLINE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Alive and Free ↗
- Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Floyd Family Foundation · Hoefer Family Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation
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 Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust 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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