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Gladys Dickson Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$157kHealth$56kInternational$30kHuman Services$23kEducation$21kReligion$20kFood & Nutrition$15kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heritage Foundation$29,000
Make a Wish Foundation NW Florida$10,125
Samaritans Purse$10,000
Judicial Watch$10,000
Villagers for Veterans$10,000
Women Golfers Give Back$4,400
Morningstar Catholic School$3,000
1819 News$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Women Golfers Give Back: $4k → 7%College of Mount St Vincent: $3k → 28%Judicial Watch: $15k → 14%Villagers for Veterans: $10k → 10%Seminole State College of Fl: $4k → 11%Make a Wish Foundation NW Florida: $10k → 13%Samaritans Purse: $10k → 21%Feeding America: $5k → 14%Students for Fair Admission: $3k → 7%Make a Wish Maine: $8k → 7%Boothbay Region Health Center: $3k → 9%Heather's Way: $21k → 7%Judicial Watch: $10k → 14%Make a Wish Foundation NW Florida: $10k → 13%Samaritans Purse: $10k → 21%Judicial Watch: $10k → 14%Central Florida Make a Wish Foundat: $5k → 13%Samaritans Purse: $10k → 21%Students For Fair Admissions: $5k → 14%Make a Wish Foundation: $5k → 13%Conservative Partnership Inst: $25k → 14%First Presbyterian Church: $5k → 13%Conservative Partnership: $20k → 14%Second Harvest Food Bank of Central: $10k → 13%Conservative Partnership Institute: $15k → 14%Morning Star Catholic School: $3k → 13%Heritage Foundation: $29k → 14%Morningstar Catholic School: $3k → 13%Heritage Foundation: $28k → 14%Morningstar Catholic School: $3k → 13%Heritage Foundation: $15k → 14%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

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IL
PA
VA
NC
DC
AL
FL
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 7 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$214k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-16%

Still filing today

71%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Public BenefitReligionEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +26%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • HW
    HEATHER'S WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -16%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • LC
    LIBERTY COUNSEL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k
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.

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Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
2
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
3
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Hunger Free America Inc

Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

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8
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
9
National Women's Shelter Network Inc

Our mission is to advance the status of women,youth,children and families experiencing homelessness in our country, and the womens, youth and family shelters and safe havens that serve them, and end and prevent homelessness. we do so by:…

Housing & Shelter
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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12
Women's Ordination Conference

Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Make a Wish Foundation NW Florida: $20,125 · OtherMake a Wish Foundation NW FloridaIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIBERTY COUNSEL INC: $15,000 · OtherLIBERTY COUNSEL INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORI…Morning Star Catholic School: $9,250 · OtherMorning Star Catholic SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCentral Florida Make a Wish Foundat: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $5,000 · OtherMake a Wish Foundation: $5,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian Church: $5,000 · OtherNational Right to Work Legal Defens: $5,000 · OtherFeeding America: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $21,650 · Other+7 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $72,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCVILLAGERS FOR VETERANS INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitVILLAGERS FOR VETERANS INCConservative Partnership Institute: $40,000 · EducationConservative…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'…HOUSE OF HOPE ORLANDO INC: $5,000 · ReligionHOUSE OF H…HEATHER'S WAY: $20,500 · HealthNATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesStudents For Fair Admissions Inc: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Other$133,525Public Benefit$117,000Education$40,000Religion$35,000Health$20,500Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER'S WAY: $20,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGERS FOR VETERANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStudents For Fair Admissions Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE ORLANDO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $4,400 over 1y, 1.9% 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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HEATHER'S WAY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGERS FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Students For Fair Admissions Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ORLANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK ↗

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.

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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 Gladys Dickson Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gladys Dickson Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • National House of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Gladys Dickson Charitable Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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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