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Doak Finch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$405kReligion$169kEducation$160kCommunity Improvement$142kHealth$45kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Benefit$25kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$45,000
TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA$30,000
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE$20,000
NOVANT HEALTH THOMASVILLE MEDICAL CTR$10,000
UNITED WAY OF DAVIDSON COUNTY$10,000
MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
THOMASVILLE ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FDN$8,000
SALVATION ARMY$7,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
DAVIDSON MEDICAL MINISTRIES$5,000
DAVIDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%TOM A FINCH YMCA: $75k → 13%EMPOWER BREASTFEEDING INC: $5k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA: $70k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA: $70k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%TOM A FINCH YMCA: $70k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $45k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA: $30k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 9%TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA: $30k → 13%COOPERATIVE: $20k → 13%COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 13%COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 13%COOPERATIVE: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE: $20k → 13%COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 13%CITY OF THOMASVILLE: $15k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $14k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $12k → 13%CITY OF THOMASVILLE: $10k → 13%THOMASVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST: $10k → 13%THOMASVILLE MEDICAL: $10k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST: $10k → 13%NOVANT HEALTH THOMASVILLE MEDICAL CTR: $10k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 13%MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 13%THOMASVILLE MEDICAL: $5k → 13%DAVIDSON MEDICAL: $15k → 13%ARTS OF DAVIDSON COUNTY: $5k → 13%ARTS OF DAVIDSON COUNTY: $5k → 13%DAVIDSON MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%DAVIDSON MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%ARTS UNITED OF: $5k → 13%DAVIDSON MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%DAVIDSON MEDICAL: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 24 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$30k

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TA
    THOMASVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $77k · revenue +20%
  • CO
    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +1%
  • TR
    THOMASVILLE ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TR
    THOMASVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TM
    THOMASVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AU
    ARTS UNITED OF
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community General Hospital Foundation Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
2
Davie County Chamber of Commerce

To advance the economic and civic interests of the business communinity in davie county, nc and to provide services for chamber members.

3
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…

4
Thomasville Chamber Foundation Inc

The purpose of the organization is to further the economic development of thomasville, nc and the surrounding areas and to promote job creation opportunities and growth in the tax base. the organization collects and distributes donations…

Community Improvement
5
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

6
Thomasville Community Development Corporation

The purpose of the thomasville community development corporation is to improve the quality of life and wealth creation opportunities for residents of thomasville's under-invested neighborhoods. the corporation embraces a people-first,…

Community Improvement
7
Huntington County Chamber of Commerce Inc

To promote and support a community atmosphere in which business prospers and the quality of life continually improves.

8
Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve as a catalyst for business and community development in the tri-state area. accomplished through the commercial, financial, civic, agricultural, industrial and general interests of the community.

9
Campbellsville-Taylor County

Advancement of civic, commercial, industrial interest to promote welfare & prosperity and stimulate public support for campbellsville-taylor county.

10
Rogersville Area Chamber of Commerc

To promote, advocate, support and provide opportunities for growth and sustainability of businesses in the rogersville area.

11
The Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, enhance economic and community development, and serve as a catalyst for improving the overall quality of life in the community and region.

12
Fauquier Chamber of Commerce

We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomasville Area Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Chamber of Commerce Foundation. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA INC — $200,000 · OtherTOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA INCTOM A FINCH YMCA — $145,000 · OtherTOM A FINCH YMCACOOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $105,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE COMMUNITY MINISTRIESCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE — $80,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLETHOMASVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $77,000 · OtherTHOMASVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEMEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $44,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $42,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS — $40,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE — $40,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS — $35,000 · Other+16 more — $197,000 · Other+16 moreCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Community ImprovementTHOMASVILLE ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE — $21,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY — $8,000 · Human Services
Other$1,005,000Community Improvement$55,000Crime & Legal$21,000Human Services$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA INC — $200,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHOMASVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $77,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHOMASVILLE ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE — $21,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetDavidson Medical Ministries Clinic Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 TOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA INC
  • Who funds THOMASVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THOMASVILLE ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE
  • Who funds Davidson Medical Ministries Clinic Inc
  • Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
  • Who funds COMMUNITY GENERAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY
  • Who funds DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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.

Community General Health Partners IncNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community General Health Partners Inc · Novant Health Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Doak Finch 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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