· Private foundation
Dorothy Friend M Ita
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $1,750 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $1,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2025 · $109k
- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +88%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA3× · 2018–2025 · $21k
Funded once
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FBOone grant, 2024 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CCCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.
Providing christ-centered liberal arts education, empowering graduates to excel.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow.
A nationally ranked christian university founded by the wesleyan church.
Gardner-webb university, a private, christian, baptist-related university, provides outstanding undergraduate and graduate education that is strongly grounded in the liberal arts while offering opportunities to prepare for various…
Limestone university is a four-year, liberal arts institution in gaffney, sc. established in 1845, limestone offers masters, bachelor and associate degrees through traditional and non-traditional educational opportunities.
An Episcopal University composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Theology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Greenville University and the most unlike its peers is Anderson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dorothy Friend M Ita 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.
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 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.