· Private foundation
Dover Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NCBM Shelby Mission Camp | $50,000 |
| Gardner-Webb University | $50,000 |
| Green Bethel Baptist Church | $45,000 |
| Pentecostal Apostolic Church of Chr | $43,000 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | $40,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Cleveland Co | $40,000 |
| Cleveland Co Rescue Mission | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dover Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dover Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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