North Carolina · Private foundation
Dover Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,610
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $151,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Dover Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $971k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $930k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $848k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $760k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 76 | $903k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner-Webb University | $342,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc | $226,800 | 6 | 5% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $225,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Washington Outreach Ministry Inc | $186,000 | 7 | 29% |
| Nc State University | $170,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Life | $132,950 | 7 | 0% |
| Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Mental Health Association of Cleveland County Inc | $124,000 | 7 | 34% |
| Cleveland Vocational Industries Inc | $117,670 | 6 | 2% |
| Junior Charity League of Shelby Inc | $117,500 | 6 | 86% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dover Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · Hospice Cleveland County Foundation · The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation · Weathers Family Foundation - Rbc Trust Accoun · Joseph M Wright Char Found Inc · Bailey Endowment Inc · The Neisler Foundation TUA · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Cleveland County Inc · Gaston Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dover Foundation Inc
- How much does Dover Foundation Inc give?
- Dover Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $1,106,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dover Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (17%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Dover Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gardner-Webb University ($342k), Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ($227k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($225k).
- Does Dover Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dover Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dover Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Albemarle Foundation, Hospice Cleveland County Foundation.
- Where is Dover Foundation Inc based?
- Dover Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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