· Private foundation
Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESTHER KAIKAI MEMORIAL OUTREACH | $39,000 |
| HELP THE PERSECUTED | $34,000 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $30,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $26,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMIES INC | $20,000 |
| CARENET | $20,000 |
| REMERGE | $20,000 |
| NORTHPOINT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $10,000 |
| THE FORGOTTEN INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BARRY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ANDREW WOMMACK MINISTRIES INC | $7,000 |
| THE EXODUS ROAD INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +17% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +100%
- AYAtlanta Youth Academies Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +204%
- CNCare Net6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- NANATIONS ARISE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- WWWilderness Worksone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
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.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Womens Center of Barry County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 79 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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Youth Academies Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EXODUS ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE LESS INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE ON DELK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS ARISE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Works ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Servant Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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