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Dawn Laurel Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $525k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $922k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY | $222,000 |
| BON SECOURS-ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE EDISON INST DBA THE HENRY | $100,000 |
| DR JAMES DOBSON FAMILY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $100,000 |
| RIPPLE OF ONE INC | $75,000 |
| DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS CO | $75,000 |
| CLEMSON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $50,000 |
| GREENVILLE SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CITIZENS FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| MARYS HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| ANDERSON LIFE CRISIS PREGNANCY CTR | $30,000 |
| COLLINS CHILDRENS HOME | $30,000 |
| PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILDERNESS WAY CAMP SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NGNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $762k · revenue +14%
- DJDr James Dobson Family Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +25%
- RORIPPLE OF ONE6× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +330%
Funded once
- CSCLINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC NGUone grant, 2021 · $100k
- GCGREENVILLE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +86% · 27% of their budget
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LEXINGTONone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Our mission is to partner with christian parents in providing a quality education integrated with a biblical world view that will prepare the students for a life of service to the lord jesus christ.
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
To promote the gospel message by placing christian personnel in prisons for the purpose of relating to the spiritual needs of the inmates on an ongoing basis.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothills Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clemson Meals On Wheels 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CITIZENS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE FOR REGAINING YOUR SAFETY ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds LAKES AND BRIDGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON LIFE CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WAY CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Museum & Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RADIO TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDS TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CARE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The David E Maguire Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Oconee Federal Charitable Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Joe F Hayes Trust · Upcountry Fiber Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Dawn Laurel 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.
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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