· Private foundation
Dobson Tape Ministry
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ENCOURAGING WORD | $5,000 |
| WATER OF LIFE | $5,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PREMIER ARTS COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| KB CHARITABLE TRUST | $5,000 |
| SC SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND | $4,250 |
| ONE LIFE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| UNTO | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTERS | $3,000 |
| THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| TRIUNE MERCY CENTER | $2,000 |
| FAVOR | $2,000 |
| SCHOOL MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE)5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
- SHSIDEWALK HOPE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +20%
- TPThe Premier Foundation3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CCChrist Centralone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HIHaggai Internationalone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HHaggaione grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
To equip men to be preachers, pastors, and churchmen for christ's kingdom among the nations.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
A Baptist ministry for children and families of South Carolina that provides residential care for children in need along with counseling, educational, and referral services while developing and strengthening positive relationships in a…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thornwell and the most unlike its peers is Tim Lee Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 KB CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds SET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE) ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SIDEWALK HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Premier Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONELIFE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds School Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds The King's College ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
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: South Carolina Christian Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Yeargin Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Kellett Family Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Dobson Tape Ministry 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.