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Dickey Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$622kEducation$619kYouth Development$179kArts & Culture$170kHuman Services$76kAnimals$17kCrime & Legal$11kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$61,400
Individual grant recipient$39,000
YOUNG LIFE$24,500
CRU$24,000
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL$20,900
FIRST LOVE KIDS$19,000
Individual grant recipient$18,500
SANDERSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURC$7,100
RICK BONFIM MINISTRIES$6,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$6,000
CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER$6,000
SUNSHINE HOUSE$6,000
HOPE HEALS$5,000
WCRMC FOUNDATION$5,000
RELIANT MISSION$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%HOPE HEALS: $6k → 13%ATLAS MINISTRY: $5k → 14%HOPE HEALS: $5k → 13%ATLAS MINISTRY: $500 → 14%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

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IL
CO
NE
MO
KY
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 37 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
35

Total granted

$2.0M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & 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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +38%
  • CL
    CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • EC
    EMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUMMIT CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WG
    WESLEY GLEN MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 96 CENTRAL GA COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +92%
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
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Baptist Clinical Research Institute Inc

Baptist clinical research institute, inc. engages in and facilitates medical and scientific research and educational activities in clinical areas.

Science & Tech
3
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.

Human Services
4
Summit Christian Academy

Summit christian academy's mission is to inspire students to achieve their god given potential through excellent academics & christian training in a compassionate environment.

Education
5
Chattahoochee Christian School Inc

Chattahoochee christian school is committed to be a school that partners with families to create a foundation of christian faith and character upon which to build academic excellence.

Education
6
Appalachian Bible College Inc

Serving the chrisitan community in the strengthening of local churches, promoting responsible christian character and maturity through educational programs, and preparing graduates for vocational and volunteer church-related service.

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7
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."

Religion
8
Baptist Medical Center - Leake Inc

The mission of baptist medical center - leake, inc. is to improve the health of the communities it serves by providing excellent health care services by continually improving the quality of patient care and utilizing resources efficiently…

Health
9
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
10
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
11
Every Generation Ministries Inc

Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…

Religion
12
Gatewood Schools Inc

The mission of gatewood schools is to educate students in a nurturing, christian environment while instilling the life long commendable characteristics of excellence, truth, honor, loyalty and prinde in each student. gatewood schools will…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Emanuel Co Child Abuse Prevention Ctr. 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

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 76 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $463,950 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $285,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCRU: $150,500 · OtherCRUSANDERSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURC: $54,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $39,750 · Other+51 more: $168,380 · Other+51 moreBRENTWOOD SCHOOL INC: $606,905 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL INC+5 more: $8,500 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $84,950 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST LOVE KIDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $62,500 · Youth DevelopmentRICK BONFIM MINISTRIES INC: $41,500 · ReligionCHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $30,000 · Religion+2 more: $3,000 · ReligionEMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR: $28,000 · Crime & LegalHope Heals Inc: $10,840 · Human ServicesATLAS Ministry Inc: $5,500 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $2,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $250 · HealthCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $125 · Health
Other$1,162,280Education$615,405Youth Development$147,450Religion$74,500Crime & Legal$28,000Human Services$16,640Health$2,375

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 budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL INC: $606,905 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $84,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LOVE KIDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $62,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetRICK BONFIM MINISTRIES INC: $41,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $30,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetEMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR: $28,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBROKEN SHACKLE RANCH INC: $11,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $10,840 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATLAS Ministry Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA CLUB INC: $2,400 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 96 CENTRAL GA COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHENCK SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLook Up Lodge Christian Camp Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA HI-LO TRAIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $50 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LOVE KIDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds RICK BONFIM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds EMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR ↗
  • Who funds BROKEN SHACKLE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗
  • Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 96 CENTRAL GA COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗

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.

Hodges II Foundation IncGA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
0get no government money at all
9report 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.
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How do I get to Dickey Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dickey Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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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