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Dkg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$406kHuman Services$46kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$5kEmployment$5k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$323k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA USA$25,000
RIVERBEND CHURCH$25,000
THE LIFE CONNECTION INC$9,164
MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000)$6,250
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$2,000
ENTRUST$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK$2,000
STAR FISH KENYA$2,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$1,000
MOBIL LOAVES AND FISHES$1,000
OLAM DAMASCUS REENTRY PROGRAM$1,000
GALILEE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%TRINITAS COMMUNITIES ON MISSION: $50k → 14%STAR FISH KENYA: $2k → 16%DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%OLAM DAMASCUS REENTRY PROGRAM: $1k → 21%GALILEE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 15%ALPHA USA: $50k → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%TRINITAS COMMUNITIES ON MISSION: $15k → 14%STAR FISH KENYA: $2k → 16%DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%ALPHA USA: $50k → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%STAR FISH KENYA: $2k → 16%DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%ALPHA USA: $28k → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%STAR FISH KENYA: $1k → 16%DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%ALPHA USA: $25k → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%STAR FISH KENYA: $1k → 16%DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $2k → 10%AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN SEASON FOR CARING FUND: $5k → 10%AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN SEASON FOR CARING FUND: $5k → 10%RIVERBEND CHURCH: $50k → 10%RIVERBEND CHURCH: $25k → 10%RIVERBEND CHURCH: $25k → 10%RIVERBEND CHURCH: $25k → 10%RIVERBEND CHURCH: $25k → 10%THE LIFE CONNECTION INC: $20k → 10%MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $7k → 10%MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $7k → 10%MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $7k → 10%MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $6k → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%THE LIFE CONNECTION INC: $9k → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%MISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $6k → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 14 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
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Total granted

$503k
$1k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterFood & 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

  • AU
    Alpha USA
    4× · 2020–2025 · $153k · revenue +145%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • SK
    Starfish Kenya Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Discipleship Training Institute for All Nations
Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Apt Ministries

To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.

Religion
4
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
5
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
6
Church Transformation Network Inc

CTNs mission is to partner with national churches to economically and effectively train large numbers of Christian leaders in their calling character and ministry competency so that local communities of faith remain biblical faithful and…

Religion
7
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
8
T-Net International

"T-NET" stands for the "Training Network" for Disciplemaking Churches. T-NET is an international Christian training organization. Its mission is "To return the church to its disciplemaking roots, worldwide".

Philanthropy
9
Church Leadership Center Inc
Religion
10
Christian Lingua Services
Religion
11
Christian Leaders for Africa Inc

Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…

Religion
12
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entrust; the most unlike its peers is The Life Connection Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIVERBEND BAPTIST CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherRIVERBEND BAPTIST CHURCHTRINITAS COMMUNITIES ON MISSION: $65,000 · OtherTRINITAS COMMUNITIES ON MISSIONMISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000): $33,881 · OtherMISC CHARITIES (UNDER 1000)AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN SEASON FOR CARING FUND: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $21,000 · Other+6 moreAlpha USA: $153,000 · ReligionAlpha USATHE LIFE CONNECTION INC: $29,164 · ReligionTHE LIFE CONNECTION INC+1 more: $4,000 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalStarfish Kenya Inc: $8,000 · InternationalAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$279,881Religion$186,164International$18,000Public Safety & Disaster$12,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetAlpha USA: $153,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIFE CONNECTION INC: $29,164 over 2y, 100% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStarfish Kenya Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetENTRUST: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 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 Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds THE LIFE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Starfish Kenya Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENTRUST ↗
  • Who funds DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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 Dkg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dkg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 79%
  • Dale Rogers Training Center Inc: 79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dkg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dkg Foundation 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 17 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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