· Private foundation
Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SPCA | $75,000 |
| PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $30,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $25,000 |
| SUPPORTERS OF THE DOELGER SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| CURI ODYSSEY (FORMERLY COYOTE POINT MUSEUM) | $25,000 |
| All May See Foundation | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY WILDLIFE LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $10,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 81% of Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 19%.
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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +22%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 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 CAMINAR ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SKYLINE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Alive and Free ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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