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Dodie Anderson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Dodie Anderson Charitable Foundation

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.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$752kEducation$146kYouth Development$120kHealth$75kRecreation & Sports$60kHousing & Shelter$45kReligion$35kEnvironment$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $335k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$335,000
LEAD COLLECTIVE INC$25,000
WAKE UP CAROLINA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MOUNTAIN BRIDGE CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED$15,000
GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC$15,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DGBGNQ INC: $45k → 9%BEYOND BASIC LIFE SKILLS: $10k → 11%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $735k · revenue +32%
  • LC
    LEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +671%
  • GT
    GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $101k · revenue -53%

Funded once

  • DI
    DGBGNQ Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • UO
    UNIV OF SC GAMECOCK CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • PH
    PRISMA HEALTH FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Gbsc Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
3
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
4
South Carolina Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation
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5
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
6
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Scbio Foundation

By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…

Science & Tech
8
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
9
Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation
—
10
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
11
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…

—
12
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dgbgnq 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $735,000 · AnimalsTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIM…UNIV OF SC GAMECOCK CLUB: $35,000 · OtherUNIV OF SC GA…MT BRIDGE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED: $27,000 · OtherMT BRIDGE CHA…LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR: $25,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHUR…PRISMA HEALTH FAMILY YMCA: $20,000 · OtherPRISMA HEALTH…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual gr…MOUNTAIN BRIDGE CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED: $15,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN BRID…RESTORATION CHAPEL: $10,000 · OtherRESTORATION C…+1 more: $2,000 · OtherGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 · EducationGREENVILLE T…University of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $45,000 · EducationUniversity o…LEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD COLLECT…CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S C…DGBGNQ Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BASIC LIFE SKILLS: $10,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $8,000 · Human ServicesWAKE UP CAROLINA: $35,000 · HealthSHRINE BOWL OF THE CAROLINAS: $5,000 · HealthGARNET TRUST FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$735,000Other$149,000Education$146,000Youth Development$140,000Human Services$63,000Health$40,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $735,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA: $120,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE UP CAROLINA: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGARNET TRUST FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEYOND BASIC LIFE SKILLS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINE BOWL OF THE CAROLINAS: $5,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

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.

The Jolley FoundationScansource Charitable…Dabo's All in Team Fo…Coastal Community Fou…Duke Energy FoundationTruist Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Jolley FoundationNV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Dodie Anderson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dodie Anderson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Dodie Anderson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dodie Anderson Charitable 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 19 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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