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D E Pardue Sr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of D E PARDUE SR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUBY PARDUE ADULT DAY CARE CENTER$100,000
WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE$25,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
GALAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
FIVE-O-'S TIKI FOUNDATION$25,000
RICHMOND CHILDEN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
FOOD INDEPENDENCE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
JOY RANCH$15,000
BEREA BAPTIST CHURCH$15,000
FRIENDS OF FULL POCKET FARM$15,000
KIDDIE KINGDOM$15,000
GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION$15,000
JACOB'S CHANCE$12,000
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JOY RANCH: $15k → 16%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%JOY RANCH: $10k → 16%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%JOY RANCH: $8k → 16%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%JOY RANCH: $5k → 16%JOY RANCH: $5k → 16%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

NY
OH
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
OK
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 33 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+38%

Still filing today

58%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • FT
    Five-Os Tiki Foundation Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +73%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +29%
  • GV
    GALAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • PH
    PATRICK HENRY SPORTS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • WC
    WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INSTITUTIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • BC
    BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE INSTI
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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
Special Operations Warrior Foundation

To ensure comprehensive educational support including, but not limited to, academic advocacy, preschool and private school grants, tutoring, support for students with disabilities, college readiness programs, full financial assistance for…

Education
2
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
3
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
4
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation

Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation (the Foundation) is a Colorado notprofit organization formed in 2007 for the purpose of assisting veterans who have suffered severe duty-related injuries resulting in permanent physical…

Education
5
Veterans Recovery Resources

Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…

Public Benefit
6
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
7
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc

The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.

8
The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc

To protect lives and restore livelihoods of people affected by conflict: 1) to protect lives from the explosive threats and hazards resulting from conflict, 2) to reduce human suffering from armed violence and 3) to build resilient and…

International
9
Foundation for Advancing Veterans' Health Research

To promote, administer, and conduct research and education at the va to improve the health and lives of veterans.

Health
10
The Aopa Foundation Inc

See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Community Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionVeteran Support ServicesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Health CentersChild and Family ServicesFallen First Responder Supp…
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%20%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%7%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr15%29%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,439

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 56 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ruby Pardue Blackburn Day Care Center — $300,000 · OtherRuby Pardue Blackburn Day Care CenterRUBY PARDUE ADULT DAY CARE CENTER — $100,000 · OtherRUBY PARDUE ADULT DAY CARE CENTERCHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $80,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITALWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT — $50,000 · OtherBEREA BAPTIST CHURCH — $45,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT — $45,000 · OtherRAISE COFFEE INC — $45,000 · Other+31 more — $402,000 · Other+31 moreKIDDIE KINGDOM INC — $75,000 · EducationKIDDIE KINGD…THE GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION — $45,000 · EducationTHE GALAX FO…HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationHANOVER EDUC…BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationBRIDGEWATER …+1 more — $5,000 · EducationFive-Os Tiki Foundation Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGALAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN — $55,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGODS PIT CREW INC — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBAYWOOD RESCUE SQUAD INC — $10,250 · Public Safety & DisasterSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 · HealthTHE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthJOY RANCH INC — $43,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesCHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $9,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,067,000Education$170,000Philanthropy$100,000Public Safety & Disaster$91,250Health$75,000Human Services$63,500Arts & Culture$13,000

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 budgetFive-Os Tiki Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetKIDDIE KINGDOM INC — $75,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGALAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN — $55,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION — $45,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetJOY RANCH INC — $43,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYWOOD RESCUE SQUAD INC — $10,250 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUCKAHOE SPORTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $9,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Five-Os Tiki Foundation Inc
  • Who funds KIDDIE KINGDOM INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds GALAX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN
  • Who funds THE GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
  • Who funds JOY RANCH INC
  • Who funds HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC
  • Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
  • Who funds Jacobs Chance Inc
  • Who funds BAYWOOD RESCUE SQUAD INC
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds TUCKAHOE SPORTS INC
  • Who funds CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
  • Who funds EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS

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 Community Foundation IncVA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 D E Pardue Sr Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to D E Pardue Sr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to D E Pardue Sr 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 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.

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