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Dove Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$10MEducation$4.7MRecreation & Sports$3.8MHealth$3.3MReligion$410kCrime & Legal$192kScience & Tech$75kHuman Services$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $229k
  • $250k+3 grants · $12M
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOTHAN OPERA HOUSE$10,000,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATN$1,000,000
TIGERS UNLIMITED$621,720
SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC$104,002
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$75,000
HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION$50,000
DOTHAN POLICE FOUNDATION$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SRV$20,000
MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
WIREGRASS UNITED WAY$5,000
WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND ST FND$5,000
JAMES B LEE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%HITS FOR HEROES: $500 → 17%DARE TO HOPE: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
IN
CA
MO
MD
AR
TN
NC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 38 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
37

Total granted

$12M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

61%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +42%
  • DP
    DOTHAN POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +261% · 46% of their budget
  • SD
    SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AM
    ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AC
    ANDERSON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • LM
    LADY MAVS BASKETBALL BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Sports Foundation Inc

Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…

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3
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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4
Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology

The primary mission of the institute will be to use the increasingly powerful research tools being developed in the biotechnology area to better understand the causes of certain diseases and to apply the findings of such research to help…

Science & Tech
5
Urology Health Foundation

The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…

Education
6
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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7
Alabama Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation
Education
8
Alabama Oncology Foundation

None

Health
9
Alabama Archives & History Foundation

To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.

Arts & Culture
10
Disabled American Veterans of Alabama Inc

Disabled american veterans of alabama, inc was organized as an association of men and women who were wounded, gassed, injured or disabled in the line of duty during time of war.

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11
Agcsa Foundation

Agcsa foundation makes grants to medical research organizations and academic medical centers for cancer research and cancer treatment and provides need-based scholarships to children and grandchildren of members of agcsa to attend…

Health
12
Alabama Press Association Journalism Foundation Inc

The foundation provides educational opportunities for qualifying students through grants, scholarships, and internship programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southeast Alabama Medical Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Windermere Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 80 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOTHAN OPERA HOUSE: $10,000,000 · OtherDOTHAN OPERA HOUSESOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC: $4,515,246 · OtherSOUTHEAST EDUCATION INCTIGERS UNLIMITED: $3,696,720 · OtherTIGERS UNLIMITED+54 more: $957,748 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,156,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1…+7 more: $23,750 · HealthHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationENGAGED IN LIFE ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC: $28,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA DANCE WORKS INC: $6,600 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $5,500 · ReligionONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES: $4,000 · Religion
Other$19,169,714Health$3,179,750Education$160,000Recreation & Sports$101,500Philanthropy$73,500Arts & Culture$40,600Religion$9,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC: $4,515,246 over 6y, 16% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,156,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDOTHAN POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $26,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetENGAGED IN LIFE ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA DANCE WORKS INC: $6,600 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARKANSAS STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC: $5,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHITS FOR HEROES INC: $3,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 192: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLAZER BOLT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Sports Medicine Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $725 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHEMO BUDDIES: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIREGRASS ANGEL HOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds DOTHAN POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGED IN LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA DANCE WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds ONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Wiregrass FoundationThe Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…The George & Laura Fl…Alfa FoundationJohn H Watson Charita…The Coleman FoundationThe Paul & Barbara Fl…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…
Wiregrass FoundationAL28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · Alfa Foundation · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · The Coleman Foundation · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Dove Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dove Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 80 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-PF 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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