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Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.2MHealth$2.4MHuman Services$2.1MEducation$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.1MYouth Development$975kPhilanthropy$625kCommunity Improvement$549kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $914k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE$150,000
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$100,000
PINE REST FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$63,732
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER$50,000
GRYPHON PLACE$50,000
CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$50,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$50,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES INC$50,000
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$48,893
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$45,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PINE REST FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%HEALTHY HOUSE: $10k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $75k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $75k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $50k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $50k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $50k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $20k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $20k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $15k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $15k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $13k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $13k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $13k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $12k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $10k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $10k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $10k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $10k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $10k → 12%LIFT FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%LIFT FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $100k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $150k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $100k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $50k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $50k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 101 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
33

Total granted

$13M
$690k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • KC
    Kalamazoo Civic Theatre
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +13%
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +149%
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $575k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • HC
    HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +73%
  • CO
    CITY OF PORTAGE
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • MW
    MSU WK KELLOGG BIRD SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2019 · $75k

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.

1
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…

Public Benefit
2
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal
3
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…

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4
Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education
5
Kalamazoo Area Christian Retir Asso

To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.

Human Services
6
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
7
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
8
Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Society

Educational service for elementary through high school students.

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9
South County Community Services

South county community services (sccs) is the only human service agency dedicated to serving the 25,000 residents who live in the southern tier of kalamazoo county. with a mission to work with families to improve quality of life, the…

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10
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
11
Northern Homes Community Development Corporation

To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.

Human Services
12
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Vic Theatricals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr19%40%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr19%33%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
10%
114/1,184

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 152 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
73/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Kalamazoo Civic Theatre — $1,600,000 · OtherKalamazoo Civic TheatreYWCA — $670,520 · OtherYWCACOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $400,000 · OtherMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $278,500 · Other+91 more — $4,762,100 · Other+91 moreSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $303,500 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YM…KAIROS DWELLING — $225,000 · Human ServicesKAIROS DWELLINGFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $203,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDR…LIFT FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesLIFT FOUNDATIONKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $161,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COUNT…HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO — $150,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE COMMUN…YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $130,000 · Human ServicesYWCA WEST CENTR…ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $100,500 · Human ServicesPINE REST FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesAACORN FARM INC — $93,000 · Human ServicesFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $65,500 · Human Services+7 more — $201,000 · Human Services+7 moreWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $585,000 · EducationWESTERN M…KALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $525,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO…READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO — $88,000 · EducationREAD AND …+1 more — $25,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $290,000 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $195,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $146,500 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $130,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $105,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YEARS FEST OF KALAMAZOO INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFONTANA CHAMBER ARTS — $46,000 · Arts & CultureWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers — $37,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $121,200 · Arts & CultureBronson Health Foundation — $413,750 · HealthDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE — $105,000 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC — $105,000 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $87,500 · HealthSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $64,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $40,000 · Health+3 more — $40,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $510,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM — $40,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $575,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $11,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,711,120Human Services$1,932,500Education$1,223,000Arts & Culture$1,121,200Health$1,030,250Youth Development$670,000Philanthropy$636,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $1,600,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $585,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $575,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $525,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $510,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $413,750 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $400,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $303,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $290,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $278,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO — $233,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $232,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKAIROS DWELLING — $225,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $215,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $203,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLIFT FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $195,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC — $175,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $161,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetVIBRANT KALAMAZOO — $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO — $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM — $150,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $146,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $145,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $130,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $130,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE — $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $105,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC — $105,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $100,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPINE REST FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION — $100,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO — $99,500 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $94,500 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetAACORN FARM INC — $93,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $90,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO — $88,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $87,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Arts & Cultural Center — $76,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN — $74,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $65,500 over 8y, 6.6% of budget
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 Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds KAIROS DWELLING ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds DOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
  • Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
  • Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗

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.

Harold and Grace Upjo…Kalamazoo Community F…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Tyler-Little Family F…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…The Ronda E Stryker a…John E Fetzer Institu…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…United Way of South C…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…Enna Foundation
Harold and Grace Upjohn FoundationMI191.9× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · Enna 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 organization Dorothy U Dalton Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 152 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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