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Dixie Wonders Trust at a glance

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Dixie Wonders Trust

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.

$154k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$348kReligion$348kHealth$199kArts & Culture$99k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
$15,432
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$38,580
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$34,722
CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES$19,290
NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$15,432
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,432
MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$7,716
PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY$7,716
COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA$7,716
HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY$7,716
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $90k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $46k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 7%HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY: $16k → 9%LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $41k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $37k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 7%HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $36k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 7%HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY: $8k → 9%LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $39k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $35k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 7%HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY: $8k → 9%LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $39k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $35k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 7%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 16%CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $19k → 10%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $35k → 7%NH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 7%COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $10k → 16%PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $10k → 7%COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $8k → 16%MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $10k → 7%COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $8k → 16%PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $8k → 7%COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $8k → 16%MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $8k → 7%COLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $8k → 16%MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $8k → 7%PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $8k → 7%PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $8k → 7%MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $8k → 7%MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $8k → 7%PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $8k → 7%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$995k · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$995k
$0

Still filing today

22%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • LC
    LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2019–2024 · $249k
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $224k
  • CC
    CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $124k

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    2 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. 2 of the 9 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    2/2
    Grantees still filing
    2/2
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    LESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $248,699 · OtherLESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $223,828 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $124,350 · OtherCRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIESNH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $99,479 · OtherNH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLINDCOLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MA: $49,741 · OtherCOLLEGE CLUB OF BOSTON MAPETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: $49,741 · OtherPETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARYHOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY: $49,740 · OtherHOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITYBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $99,479 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMP…Monadnock Community Hospital: $49,741 · Health
    Other$845,578Arts & Culture$99,479Health$49,741

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $99,479 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMonadnock Community Hospital: $49,741 over 6y, 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
    • Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Dixie Wonders Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dixie Wonders Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 9 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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