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Dash Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dash 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.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$235kHealth$169kReligion$118kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$15kEducation$10kArts & Culture$3kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$829k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Impact Ministries USA$39,000
Women's Care Clinic$35,109
Cure International$35,000
Encouragers Unlimited Ministries$16,000
Kids Alive International$10,000
Vineyard Church$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Shriner's Hospitals for Children$1,000
Festival of Trees Danville$934
02The need
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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 (FY18–23, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Home Improvement Ministries: $10k → 8%Help Ministries Inc: $50k → 17%Help Ministries Inc: $25k → 17%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
IL
MI
MA
IN
CA
TN
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$601k · 10 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$601k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthReligionHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • CURE INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +69%
  • KA
    Kids Alive International Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +56%
  • HM
    HELP MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • GT
    GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -38%
  • HI
    HOME IMPROVEMENT MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • FB
    First Baptist School
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
2
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
3
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
4
Joshua International Ministries

Joshua International Ministries is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children and families to overcome poverty and reach their maximum potential by providing free educational and medical services in Sierra…

Religion
5
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
6
A Child's Hope International

To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children.

Human Services
7
Children Rescues International

Mobilize loving and qualified Pastors, Caregivers, Educators, Administrative Personnel, and Volunteers to establish Children's Homes, Schools, and Medical Clinics in Liberia. Facilities and programming are designed to care for orphaned…

International
8
Global Effect Ministries

Global Effect Ministries teaches principles to build healthy families and strong marriages in developing nations. We care for orphans, widows, and people in need by developing nationals, empower impoverished individuals to find ways to…

International
9
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
10
Gospel Projects International Inc

Gospel projects international is a christian missions organization. we help provide care for orphaned and impoverished children in asia, we sponsor food distribution projects, and we help provide education opportunities for children in…

Religion
11
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cure International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Help Ministries 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Women's Care Clinic: $153,309 · OtherWomen's Care ClinicVINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CHAMPAIGN URBAN: $47,500 · OtherVINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CHAMP…First Baptist School: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $7,184 · OtherCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $110,000 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INCKids Alive International Inc: $87,000 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc+1 more: $2,300 · InternationalIMPACT MINISTRIES USA: $70,000 · ReligionIMPACT MINISTRIES …Encouragers Unlimited Ministries Inc: $36,000 · ReligionEncouragers Unlimi…HELP MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHELP MINISTRIES…HOME IMPROVEMENT MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOME IMPROVEMEN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthGLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$217,993International$199,300Religion$106,000Human Services$85,000Health$31,000Housing & Shelter$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 budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $87,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACT MINISTRIES USA: $70,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetEncouragers Unlimited Ministries Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOME IMPROVEMENT MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIGHT A CANDLE: $2,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dash Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dash Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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
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 16 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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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