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Tom & Patty Doar Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$370k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$390kHuman Services$377kReligion$285kHousing & Shelter$189kHealth$175kFood & Nutrition$165kRecreation & Sports$89kArts & Culture$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$50,000
GRACE PLACE$40,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER$35,000
THE RETREAT$35,000
TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF$35,000
FIVE LOAVES INC$22,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
FREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX$20,000
NEW RICHMOND AREA CENTER LTD$18,000
FAMILY MEANS$15,000
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,500
NEW RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL$6,500
THE DEERFIELD$5,000
NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $5k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $4k → 16%FAMILY MEANS: $20k → 6%TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF: $35k → 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $5k → 10%YW BOSTON: $3k → 16%FAMILY MEANS: $16k → 6%TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF: $30k → 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $3k → 10%YW BOSTON: $3k → 16%FAMILY MEANS: $15k → 6%YW BOSTON: $3k → 16%FAMILY MEANS: $15k → 6%TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF: $20k → 9%FAMILY MEANS: $10k → 6%YW BOSTON: $3k → 16%VALLEY OUTREACH: $5k → 6%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 5%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%YW BOSTON: $3k → 16%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 5%TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF: $15k → 9%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%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

VT
MN
IL
WI
MA
RI
CO
AL
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+64%

Still filing today

61%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TF
    TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +59%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +104%
  • NR
    NEW RICHMOND AREA CENTRE LTD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY DBA GRACE PLACE
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +173%
  • CO
    Community of Recovering Peoplegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +32%
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
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
2
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
FamilyWise Services

Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.

Health
5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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9
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
10
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
11
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Deep Inc. 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

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 50 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $240,000 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYGRACE PLACE INC: $150,000 · OtherGRACE PLACE INCFIVE LOAVES INC: $147,000 · OtherFIVE LOAVES INCTHE RETREAT: $135,000 · OtherTHE RETREATHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER: $135,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIERFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX: $85,000 · OtherFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX+24 more: $336,000 · Other+24 moreTURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTURNINGPOINT FOR VI…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CEN…FAMILYMEANS: $76,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANSHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $13,000 · Human Services+2 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesNEW RICHMOND AREA CENTRE LTD: $84,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT DEEP INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCommunity of Recovering People: $30,000 · HealthFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $2,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 · HealthNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $34,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: $17,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,228,000Human Services$313,000Recreation & Sports$106,000Health$54,000Education$46,500Housing & Shelter$30,000Arts & Culture$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $85,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetNEW RICHMOND AREA CENTRE LTD: $84,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILYMEANS: $76,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity of Recovering People: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: $17,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetValley Outreach: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBreck School: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW RICHMOND AREA CENTRE LTD ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
  • Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community of Recovering People ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ↗
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
  • Who funds Valley Outreach ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · St Croix Valley Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Boger Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Allina Health System

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 Tom & Patty Doar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom & Patty Doar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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