· Private foundation
Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of DORSET FOUNDATION INC ATTN MARTY SANDERSON’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| GRAND CENTRAL STATION | $25,000 |
| MASTERKEY MINISTRIES | $21,000 |
| WOMEN ROCK | $20,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOME HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| REHABILITATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| HOUSE OF ELI | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SHERMAN EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -94% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GGGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +205%
- COCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +42%
- FRFOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SNSHERMAN NOON LIONS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $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.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
Pregnancy counseling
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Providing employment and job training service for mentally challenged individuals in southeast texas.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
Child Advocacy
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Grayson County Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Stephen's Episcopal Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 42 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.
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ROCK INC ↗
- Who funds The Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF ELI INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds THE SHERMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SHARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DIVINE EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds St Stephen's Episcopal Church ↗
- Who funds MAKING DREAMS REAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable · United Way of Grayson County Inc · Wilson N Jones Community Foundation · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · Dr & Mrs Paul Pierce Memorial Foundation · Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Tr Uw Minnie M Jones · Texoma Medical Center Volunteers
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 Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson 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.
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