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Dog Hill Foundation at a glance

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Dog Hill 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$81kHousing & Shelter$70kFood & Nutrition$53kReligion$46kEducation$40kHealth$19kArts & Culture$19kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,896
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$7,896
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$7,896
DWELL MOBILE$7,896
DRIFTWOOD HOUSING$7,896
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA$7,896
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$7,896
LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE MINISTRY$7,895
OZANAM CHARITABLE PHARMACY$7,895
PORT CITY REFUGE CHURCH$7,895
HISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILE$7,895
PENELOPE HOUSE$7,895
Individual grant recipient$7,895
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DWELL MOBILE: $5k → 19%THE FUSE PROJECT: $4k → 19%FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $5k → 19%FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $5k → 19%FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $3k → 19%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 13 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$225k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

85%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FT
    Feeding the Gulf Coast
    4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +52%
  • DW
    DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +15%
  • FT
    FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST
    3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST AL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Prodisee Pantry Inc

The Organization is a faith based community emergency food and disaster relief organization located in Baldwin County, Alabama.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
3
Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc

The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.

Human Services
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc

The Organization was formed to build, own and operate a Ronald McDonald House in Mobile, Alabama. The facility provides overnight lodging for children and their parents who travel long distances to Mobile area hospitals for various…

Human Services
5
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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6
Rebuilding Together of South Al

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter
7
Hope for All Gulf Coast

It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of North Alabama Inc

collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations

Food & Nutrition
9
Refuge Memphis

Service the homeless and assist poverty stricken families

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10
Coastal Harvest

Feed the hungry and assist our partner agencies free of charge.

Human Services
11
Walker County Community Agency Inc

The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al

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12
Gadsden-Etowah Habitat for Humanity

Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Coastal Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Mobile Urban Growers 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

20 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. 20 of the 34 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE MINISTRY: $37,895 · OtherTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE MINISTRYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST AL: $25,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $17,896 · OtherDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $7,896 · OtherHISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILE: $7,895 · OtherPORT CITY REFUGE CHURCH: $7,895 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,895 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,031 · OtherMobile Baykeeper Inc: $10,000 · OtherMOBILE URBAN GROWERS INC: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $7,896 · Other+9 more: $36,000 · Other+9 moreFOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $13,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING TOGETH…DWELL MOBILE: $12,896 · Human ServicesDWELL MOBILEPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $12,895 · Human ServicesPENELOPE HOUSE I…FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE O…FUSE PROJECT: $4,000 · Human ServicesFUSE PROJECTDONORSCHOOSEORG: $35,094 · EducationDONORSCHOO…Feeding the Gulf Coast: $32,896 · Food & NutritionFeeding th…DRIFTWOOD HOUSING: $12,896 · Housing & ShelterMcKemie Place Inc: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $15,395 · HealthMobile Arts Council Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$203,299Human Services$52,791Education$35,094Food & Nutrition$32,896Housing & Shelter$18,396Health$15,395Arts & Culture$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $35,094 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $32,896 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $17,896 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $15,395 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $13,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetDRIFTWOOD HOUSING: $12,896 over 2y, 24% of budgetDWELL MOBILE: $12,896 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $12,895 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMobile Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $7,896 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $7,896 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFUSE PROJECT: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetA SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Crampton Trust #12550…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…J L Bedsole Foundatio…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Lillian C McGowin Fou…Nan H Altmayer Charit…As Mitchell Foundatio…The Hyman FoundationSkyros Benevolent Soc…Ws Foundation Inc Bla…United Way of Southwe…
Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank TrusteeAL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Hyman Foundation · Skyros Benevolent Society · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · United Way of Southwest Alabama 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 Dog Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dog Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dog Hill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dog Hill 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 34 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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