· Private foundation
Dodson Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grace Bible Church | $80,000 |
| Campus Outreach | $29,135 |
| Family Legacy | $16,624 |
| Practical Shepherding Inc | $10,000 |
| Solid Foundation | $9,500 |
| Shriners | $7,000 |
| Resource Global | $5,000 |
| Heartbeat Pregnancy Center | $5,000 |
| Josiah Venture | $3,600 |
| Moving Works | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Young Life | $2,700 |
| Campus Crusade for Christ | $2,700 |
| World Venture | $2,500 |
| Modern Day Missions | $1,650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WDWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
- PSPRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +77%
- AOALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- YIYOUTHVISION INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +497%
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2023 · $7k
- HPHearbeat Pregnancy Centerone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
To mobilize and equip christians to become agents of spiritual and socio-economic transformation in africa.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 60 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.
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MOVING WORKS ↗
- Who funds GLORY GANG MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHVISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · GiveClear Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dodson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dodson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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