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Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$326k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.1MArts & Culture$797kPhilanthropy$607kHealth$599kEducation$493kHuman Services$129kFood & Nutrition$124kHousing & Shelter$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$40,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$30,000
WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$15,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$15,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY & SCHOLARSHIP$15,000
US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST$15,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA$12,000
ROOF ABOVE$10,000
MINT MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN$10,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY$10,000
LINVILLE FOUNDATION$10,000
NC BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AVOW HOSPICE: $200 → 10%JAX FAM FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $5k → 13%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $5k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $500 → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $15k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $12k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $12k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $7k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE MENTORING: $35k → 10%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE MENTORING: $5k → 10%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE MENTORING: $2k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $1k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $1k → 10%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE MENTORING: $1k → 10%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE MENTORING: $1k → 10%DALTON'S VISION: $62k → 10%DALTON'S VISION: $12k → 10%DALTON'S VISION: $2k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Southminister Foundation: $5k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SOUTHMINISTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%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

WA
NY
MA
PA
KY
VA
DE
NC
SC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 51 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
21

Total granted

$3.6M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+30%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MM
    MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +107%
  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +195%
  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $181k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UM
    URBAN MINISTRY CENTER - CLOSE TO HOME CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • JF
    JAX FAM FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -81%
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
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
2
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
3
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
4
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
5
The Presbyterian Home At Charlotte Inc

We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.

Human Services
6
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
7
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
8
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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9
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
10
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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11
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is Southminster Foundation 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

51 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. 51 of the 80 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $818,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAAgnes Scott College: $163,500 · OtherAgnes Scott CollegeFFTC CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $150,000 · OtherFFTC CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYNC BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $94,000 · OtherUNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CTR: $92,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY: $74,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $122,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $70,000 · Other+37 more: $436,550 · Other+37 moreMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $540,200 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF AR…OPERA CAROLINA: $35,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA CAROLINAROOF ABOVE INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,000 · Arts & CultureATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $202,500 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH…CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $130,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE RES…CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $58,000 · HealthCROSSNORE COM…KNOX MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH: $36,000 · HealthKNOX MARTIN F…Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $25,000 · HealthHopeWay Foundation: $21,000 · Health+4 more: $24,000 · HealthCrisis Assistance Ministry: $86,000 · Human ServicesDALTONS VISION INC: $75,500 · Human ServicesFAITH HOPE & LOVE MENTORING: $43,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHMINSTER FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · Human Services+4 more: $12,700 · Human ServicesCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $181,250 · EducationLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · EducationQueens University of Charlotte: $11,425 · Education+5 more: $17,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $244,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: $147,000 · ReligionLeighton Ford Ministries Inc: $79,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · Religion
Other$2,020,050Arts & Culture$617,200Health$496,500Human Services$253,700Education$250,675Community Improvement$244,000Religion$231,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $540,200 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $244,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $202,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $181,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $163,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: $147,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $130,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $122,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $86,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLeighton Ford Ministries Inc: $79,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetDALTONS VISION INC: $75,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $58,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $54,250 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFAITH HOPE & LOVE MENTORING: $43,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetKNOX MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH: $36,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC: $29,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMETROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $11,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAILU ACADEMY NFP: $9,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZoe Empowers: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUMAR SERVICES INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOKES COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNevins Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEWORKS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Children Worldwide Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLily Pad Haven Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $200 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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds DALTONS VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAITH HOPE & LOVE MENTORING ↗
  • Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOX MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationDowd Foundation IncThe Dickson Foundatio…United Way of Greater…The Cannon Foundation…George W & Ruth R Bax…The Eleanor H Barnhar…Richard G Jacobus Fam…Foundation for the Ch…The Presbyterian Hosp…Albemarle Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC42.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · George W & Ruth R Baxter Foundation Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Presbyterian Hospital · Albemarle Foundation

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 Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report 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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home