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Charles H Dishman III Family Foundation Inc

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$74kHealth$72kPhilanthropy$53kArts & Culture$51kEnvironment$22kCrime & Legal$16kYouth Development$14kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$838k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC$5,000
HIGH COUNTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$5,000
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGT$5,000
KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC$2,500
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$2,500
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM$2,000
UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC$1,500
CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC$1,500
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS$1,500
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $5k → 21%ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $2k → 21%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $2k → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
WY
OH
CA
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 33 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
26

Total granted

$307k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+37%

Still filing today

94%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TH
    The High Country Charitable Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +11%
  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +72%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • EM
    EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • MA
    MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +68%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
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
6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
12
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
46/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROLLINS COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGELOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO — $17,500 · EducationLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LI…BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · EducationBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDAT…LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC — $10,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCMiami University Foundation — $4,500 · EducationMiami University Foundati…West End School Inc — $3,500 · Education+2 more — $3,000 · EducationThe High Country Charitable Foundation — $43,000 · PhilanthropyThe High Country …Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $7,700 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beac…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $2,100 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,250 · PhilanthropyNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF…SPEED ART MUSEUM — $14,250 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUMMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUHAMMAD ALI MUS…The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $3,500 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation…FUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $3,850 · Arts & Culture+7 moreLAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $14,000 · OtherLAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCA…WELLSPRING INC — $14,000 · OtherWELLSPRING INCST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL — $5,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOLEMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC — $5,000 · OtherEMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE …El Cid Historic Neighborhood Association — $7,000 · OtherEl Cid Historic Neighborhood …ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS — $6,500 · OtherELK RIVER HELPING HANDSCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $5,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY A…DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION+20 more — $29,705 · Other+20 moreNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · HealthNATIONAL STEM C…THE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · HealthTHE RYAN LICHT …HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthHAVE A HEART FO…THE PETE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · HealthTHE PETE FOUNDA…+4 more — $1,350 · HealthTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · EnvironmentGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$81,000Philanthropy$54,050Arts & Culture$50,600Other$91,205Health$47,350Environment$22,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe High Country Charitable Foundation — $43,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO — $17,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $14,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INC — $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $7,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEl Cid Historic Neighborhood Association — $7,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetELK RIVER HELPING HANDS — $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiami University Foundation — $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWest End School Inc — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PETE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $705 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON CARRIAGE HORSE ADVOCATES — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Brown-Forman Foundati…Baird Foundation IncMightycause Charitabl…Honorable Order of Ke…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY42.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc

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 Charles H Dishman III Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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