· Private foundation
Dover Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $679k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $366k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cleveland Co Family YMCA | $151,000 |
| Salvation Army | $60,000 |
| Paul Marion Ramseur Foundation | $55,000 |
| Gardner-Webb University | $50,000 |
| NCBM Shelby Mission Camp | $50,000 |
| Green Bethel Baptist Church | $45,000 |
| Pentecostal Apostolic Church of Chr | $43,000 |
| Cleveland Co Rescue Mission | $40,000 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | $40,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Cleveland Co | $40,000 |
| Mt Calvary Baptist Church | $35,000 |
| Shelby Presbyterian Church | $30,000 |
| Cleveland Community Cares | $30,000 |
| Children's Homes of Cleveland Count | $28,000 |
| Washington Outreach Ministry | $26,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- GUGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $342k · revenue +15%
- WOWASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +325% · 29% of their budget
- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PUPolkville United Methodist Churchone grant, 2023 · $54k
- EGElkridge Grove Missionary Baptist Cone grant, 2020 · $50k
- GEGrover Elementary Schoolone grant, 2022 · $37k
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To provide affordable housing to senior citizens in chapel hill, nc.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
It is the mission of continuecare hospital at hendrick medical center to deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of jesus christ.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Cleveland Co Soccer Assoc. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 162 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 GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Vocational Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS IN CHRIST OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COMMUNITY CARES ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cleveland County 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: 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
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 Dover 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.
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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