· Private foundation
Dawn S Chaney Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY | $135,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENSBORO | $20,000 |
| GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS | $15,000 |
| NC FOLK FESTIVAL LLC | $10,000 |
| ACTIVE GIRLS HEALTHY GIRLS | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| SANCTUARY HOUSE | $6,000 |
| GREENSBORO PARKS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CAROLINA THEATRE | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC MAGNOLIA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ARTS GREENSBORO | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $5,000 |
| ALLEY CAT ALLIES | $3,500 |
| HAPPY CAT INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- GGGUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +56%
- GDGREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +16%
- SHSanctuary House Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENSBOROone grant, 2019 · $30k
- NENC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- STSTEVEN TANGER CENTER FOR PERFORMINGone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
SnipWell Spay Neuter & Wellness Clinic was founded to provide low cost spay neuter and vet care to the residents of Fort Mill, Rock Hill and the surrounding areas. It is our goal to provide the best quality care at affordable prices.
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.
Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…
Our mission is to promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, the Forsyth Humane Society FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Room Foster Care Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Catsfirst. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 86 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 GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary House Inc ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals ↗
- Who funds HAPPY CAT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CATSFIRST ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CONSULTANTS GROUP ↗
- Who funds FaithAction International House ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anonymous Fund · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Weaver Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc
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 S Chaney 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.