North Carolina · Public charity
Dogwood Alliance Inc
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $181k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Dogwood Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $181k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $233k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $180k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $165k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $125k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $122k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Alpha Community Development Corporation | $343,500 | 8 | 18% |
| Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc | $116,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal | $103,800 | 5 | 6% |
| Kmartin Group | $78,200 | 4 | 17% |
| Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina | $76,200 | 5 | 32% |
| People's Justice Council | $75,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $65,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Gaston Youth | $51,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League | $33,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cultivator Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Alpha Community Development Corporation | $343,500 | 8 | 18% |
| Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc | $116,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal | $103,800 | 5 | 6% |
| Kmartin Group | $78,200 | 4 | 17% |
| Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina | $76,200 | 5 | 32% |
| People's Justice Council | $75,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $65,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Gaston Youth | $51,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League | $33,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cultivator Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Paia Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation | $25,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Nc Warn Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Blackbelt Women Rising Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| North Carolina Climate Solutions Co | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Rising Coalition | $7,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Sol Nation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Dogwood Alliance Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Windward Fund · Solutions Project Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · US Climate Action Network · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Tides Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Dogwood Alliance Inc
- How much does Dogwood Alliance Inc give?
- Dogwood Alliance Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $181,400, out of $203,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dogwood Alliance Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Community Improvement (17%), Education (2%).
- Who are Dogwood Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: New Alpha Community Development Corporation ($344k), Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc ($116k), Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal ($104k).
- Does Dogwood Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dogwood Alliance Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Solutions Project Inc, Natural Resources Defense Council Inc.
- Where is Dogwood Alliance Inc based?
- Dogwood Alliance Inc is based in NC.
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