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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.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$691kCommunity Improvement$150kEducation$20kYouth Development$20k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $181,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $203,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$11,700
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Alpha Community Development$40,000
KMartin Group$21,000
EEECHO$20,000
Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation SC$15,000
Southern Vision Alliance$11,700
Pee Dee Indian Tribe$11,700
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light$11,000
Gaston Youth$11,000
Cultivator Inc$10,000
NC Climate Solutions Coalition$10,000
The People's Justice Council$10,000
Blackbelt Women Rising$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 30%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Pee Dee Indian Tribe of SC: $20k → 30%Pee Dee Indian Tribe: $15k → 30%Pee Dee Indian Tribe: $15k → 30%Pee Dee Indian Tribe: $15k → 30%Pee Dee Indian Tribe: $12k → 30%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Dogwood Alliance Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dogwood Alliance Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.0M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-2%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • NA
    NEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $344k · revenue +54%
  • GI
    Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $116k · revenue +217%
  • PD
    PEE DEE INDIAN TRIBE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +14% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • MR
    MISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -71%
  • SN
    Sol Nation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -2%
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
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
2
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
3
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
4
Ecological Culture Initiative
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5
Environmental Justice Community Action Network

NC has clean & safe air, water & soil.

Environment
6
Global Envirotech Initiative
Philanthropy
7
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective

movement ecosystem to address the root causes of climate change. Using popular education and cultural organizing, we ignite social transformation. We center all our work in the leadership of youth, Black, Indigenous and people of color,…

Environment
8
Nuclear Watch South Inc

environmental education

Environment
9
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
10
Cherokee Concerned Citizens

Relocate residents from toxic enviorment

Environment
11
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network

Educational activities to promote environmental justice.

Environment
12
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Alpha Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is People's Justice Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $116,000 · EnvironmentGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light IncEDUCATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE AND HEAL: $103,800 · EnvironmentEDUCATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL CLIM…PEOPLE'S JUSTICE COUNCIL: $75,000 · EnvironmentPEOPLE'S JUSTICE COUNCILBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League: $33,000 · EnvironmentBlue Ridge Environmental Defense Leagu…NC WARN INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNC WARN INC+2 more: $17,000 · EnvironmentNEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $343,500 · Community ImprovementNEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP…KMARTIN GROUP: $78,200 · Youth DevelopmentPEE DEE INDIAN TRIBE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $76,200 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $65,700 · Public BenefitGASTON YOUTH: $51,000 · OtherGASTON YOUT…PAIA LOWER EASTERN CHEROKEE NATION: $25,000 · OtherPAIA LOWER …BLACKBELT WOMEN RISING INC: $20,000 · OtherBLACKBELT W…MISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION: $7,500 · OtherMISSISSIPPI…CULTIVATOR INC: $30,000 · Education
Environment$364,800Community Improvement$343,500Youth Development$78,200Human Services$76,200Public Benefit$65,700Other$103,500Education$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $343,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $116,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetEDUCATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE AND HEAL: $103,800 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetKMARTIN GROUP: $78,200 over 4y, 17% of budgetPEE DEE INDIAN TRIBE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $76,200 over 5y, 32% of budgetPEOPLE'S JUSTICE COUNCIL: $75,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $65,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League: $33,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCULTIVATOR INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPAIA LOWER EASTERN CHEROKEE NATION: $25,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetNC WARN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLACKBELT WOMEN RISING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION: $7,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSol Nation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Windward FundSolutions Project IncNatural Resources Def…Common Counsel Founda…Rockefeller Philanthr…US Climate Action Net…Environmental Defense…Tides FoundationUnited States Energy …Amazonsmile Foundation
Windward FundDC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Dogwood Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dogwood Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 16 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 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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