How much did DAWN LAUREL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of DAWN LAUREL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

performing arts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 42 grants

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

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$222,000
THE EDISON INST DBA THE HENRY$100,000
DR JAMES DOBSON FAMILY INSTITUTE$100,000
BON SECOURS-ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$100,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$100,000
RIPPLE OF ONE INC$75,000
DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS CO$75,000
GREENVILLE SYMPHONY$50,000
CLEMSON COMMUNITY CHURCH$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
WILDERNESS WAY CAMP SCHOOL$25,000
FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC$25,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.6M · 41 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+377%

Still filing today

68%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

NG
NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $762k · revenue +8%
DJ
DR JAMES DOBSON FAMILY INSTITUTE
5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +21%
RO
RIPPLE OF ONE INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +295%

Funded once

CS
CLINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC NGU
one grant, 2021 · $100k
GC
GREENVILLE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13% · 27% of their budget
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SAFE HARBORgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +377%

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.

Carolina Chaplaincy Program

Our mission is to share the christian faith and to disciple prison inmates in order to make a difference in their lives.

Religion

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc

Child evangelism fellowship is a bible centered organization composed of born again believers whose purpose is to evangelize children with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish them in the word of god.

Youth Development

South Carolina Christian Chamber of

To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.

Religion

Life House Church

Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.

Religion

Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education

Life Choice Center

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…

Health

Partners for Christian Media Inc

To provide the greater chattanooga area with a comtemporary christian radio station that spreads the gospel and encourages and exhorts christians.

Arts & Culture

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

Starkville Pregnancy Care Center

Christ centered ministry whose mission is to promote a culture for life within our community by serving people facing unexpected pregnancies, and to empower men and women to make wise choices by promoting the benefits of healthly relations…

Human Services

Palmetto Womens Center

We promote life by offering gospel centered care and counseling, excellence in medical care, and focused education and resources so that abortion would become unthinkable. We do this by offering free services that include counseling,…

Health

Columbia Christian Schools

To provide a christ centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics.

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Christian Counseling & Educational

CCEF exists to Restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church by thinking biblically about the issues of living. CCEF does this through teaching, speaking, counseling, and writing.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Home School Legal Defense Association. 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.

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 39 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/38

the rest of the field

10%

2,921/28,751

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.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

30/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,695,700Education$1,323,500Religion$618,000Human Services$516,000Health$341,000Arts & Culture$254,500Food & Nutrition$197,000

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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC31.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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 · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Tribble Foundation · United Way of Pickens County · United Way of Anderson County · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Servant 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MARYS HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE FOR REGAINING YOUR SAFETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562396016 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MARYS HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE FOR REGAINING YOUR SAFETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dawn Laurel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dawn Laurel Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAWN LAUREL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dawn Laurel Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DAWN LAUREL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dawn Laurel Foundation?

More from the funding graph