· Private foundation
Dodson Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Volunteer State College Fd | $10,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity Restore | $7,000 |
| Gallatin Cares | $7,000 |
| Volunteer Equine Advocates | $7,000 |
| Gallatin Day Care Ctr Inc | $7,000 |
| Gallatin Shalom Zone | $5,000 |
| Feed Sumner Food Bank | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GDGALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +3%
- GSGALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +251%
- VEVOLUNTEER EQUINE ADVOCATES4× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +383%
Funded once
- SMSt Margaret's Episcopal Churchone grant, 2023 · $25k
- HFHabitat for Humanityone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
To provide activities and opportunities to enrich the lives of the senior citizens in the area
Child care for low income families
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Senior citizen programs through the area agency on aging which provides a center, services, congregate meals and home delivery meals.
The gallatin chamber foundation is the gallatin area chamber of commerce's 501(c)3 component to encourage, promote, and support innovative enhancement projects and creative initiatives within the city of gallatin.
To provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.
To provide housing to low and very low income families that qualify.
To fulfill the needs of the underprivileged and disadvantaged by providing food, clothing, and other basic needs and affirm their dignity with love, compassion and respect.
Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Goodall Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dodson Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dodson Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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