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Dogwood Alliance Inc
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
$265k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
6
Communities
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Environment$314kCommunity Improvement$304kHuman Services$65kPublic Benefit$54kEducation$20kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$10kCivil Rights$8kOther$97k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
—
2020
aren't fuelforest
2021
see schedulearen't fuel
2022
aren't fuel
2023
bioenergysolutionspowerpolicystrategiceducation
2024
bioenergysolutionspowerpolicyeducationstrategicforest
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- New Alpha Community Development$80,000
- Georgia Interfaith Power and Light$27,500
- EEECHO$20,000
- KMartin Group$20,000
- Pee Dee Indian Tribe$15,000
- Cultivator Inc$10,000
- Blackbelt Women Rising$10,000
- Gaston Youth$10,000
- Southern Vision Alliance$10,000
- Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation SC$10,000
- Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League$10,000
- The People's Justice Council$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 30% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Dogwood Alliance Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Dogwood Alliance Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$846k · 11 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +232% since the first grant, against +135% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
2
Total granted
$846k
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+232%
+135%
Still filing today
82%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationOther
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
- NANew Alpha Community Development7× · 2018–2024 · $304k · revenue +232%
- GIGeorgia Interfaith Power and Light5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +402%
- TPThe People's Justice Council5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +372%
Funded once
- MRMississippi Rising Coalitionone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -74%
- SNSOL Nationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +135%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Environmental Justice Community Action Network
NC has clean & safe air, water & soil.
Environment
2
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
Educational activities to promote environmental justice.
Environment
3
Southern Sector Rising
Environmental justice and climate change policy, advocacy, and aid.
Community Improvement
4
Partners for Environmental Justice
The organization's mission is working to advocate for the human and natural communities in southeast raleigh.
Environment
5
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc
The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) works toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots…
Education
6
Black Appalachian Coalition
Black Appalachian Coalition's (BLAC) mission is to amplify Black voices by utilizing storytelling as a strategy and precursor to policymaking, building collective power to reclaim our communities, reshape systems, and drive transformative,…
Civil Rights
7
Blue Ridge Resource Conserv and Devel
Blue ridge rc&d works with partners to conserve natural resources, foster environmental stewardship, and support sustainable community development in northwest north carolina.
Environment
8
Appalachian Voices
Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.
Environment
9
Dogwood Alliance Inc
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
Environment
10
Charleston Climate Coalition
We are a grassroots organization whose primary purpose is to raise awareness about climate change, educate the public, and advocate for sound climate policy and climate action plans at the local level. We work with local municipalities to…
Public Benefit
11
Northeast Clean Energy Council Inc
NECEC leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
Community Improvement
12
CleanAIRE Nc
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Vision Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Cultivator Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$313,800Community Improvement$303,500Other$114,700Human Services$64,500Public Benefit$54,000Education$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000
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 New Alpha Community Development ↗
- Who funds Georgia Interfaith Power and Light ↗
- Who funds EEECHO ↗
- Who funds The People's Justice Council ↗
- Who funds Pee Dee Indian Tribe of SC ↗
- Who funds Southern Vision Alliance ↗
- Who funds Concerned Citizens of Richmond County ↗
- Who funds NC WARN ↗
- Who funds Cultivator Inc ↗
- Who funds Blackbelt Women Rising ↗
- Who funds Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation SC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Rising Coalition ↗
- Who funds SOL Nation ↗
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.
Solutions Project IncCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Solutions Project Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · US Climate Action Network · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Dogwood Alliance Inc 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Pee Dee Indian Tribe of SC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 570706888 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Pee Dee Indian Tribe of SC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Dogwood Alliance Inc?
Find your warmest path to Dogwood Alliance Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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