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DK Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250,000 |
| FAITH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $60,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| FOSTER COALITION INC | $22,000 |
| SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC | $18,300 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $17,000 |
| NATIONAL AMBUCS INC | $12,000 |
| SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL | $6,720 |
| HIS VESSEL MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC | $5,000 |
| THE WELLHOUSE | $5,000 |
| WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $171k · revenue +56%
- SCSOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +44%
- FCFOSTER COALITION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $88k · revenue +17% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- AVALTADENA VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $36k
- RSROGERS SISKEY LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $12k
- RCRedeemer City To Cityone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
The ministry is a not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of alabama as a ministry whose purpose is to offer christ-centered counseling for children, youth, adults, and families.
Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
Wisdom hunters resources, inc., an atlanta-based ministry created to encourage christians (a.k.a wisdom hunters) to apply god's unchanging truth in a changing world. the organization impacts wisdom hunters in over 86 countries across the…
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Ambucs 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 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 43 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 CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH CASTILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIS VESSEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds WALKER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNBOUND GRACE MINISTERIES ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · The Welch Group 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 organization DK Charitable 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.