How much does Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation give?

Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $364,022 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.

What does Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (34%), International (25%), Civil Rights (10%).

Who are Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Lifesong for Orphans Inc ($247k), Esther Kaikai Memorial Outreach Inc ($227k), Help the Persecuted Inc ($149k).

Does Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Consumers Energy Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation.

Where is Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation based?

Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation is based in TX.

Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation

Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$364k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$532kInternational$393kCivil Rights$150kEducation$115kHealth$83kHuman Services$79kPhilanthropy$63kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0

02FY2026 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k10 grants · $33k
$10k–50k17 grants · $332k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ESTHER KAIKAI MEMORIAL OUTREACH	$45,000
HELP THE PERSECUTED	$45,000
COVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES	$32,500
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS	$32,000
REMERGE	$30,000
ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMIES INC	$20,000
CARENET	$20,000
THE FORGOTTEN INITIATIVE	$17,010
CITY OF REFUGE	$10,000
ATLANTA MISSION	$10,000
PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES	$10,000
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC	$10,000
BARRY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,000
SEMPER FI AND AMERICA'S FUND	$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 48 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+16%

Still filing today

77%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

LF
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
7× · 2020–2026 · $247k · revenue +100%
AY
Atlanta Youth Academies Inc
7× · 2020–2026 · $121k · revenue +204%
CN
Care Net
7× · 2020–2026 · $95k · revenue +105%

Funded once

NA
NATIONS ARISE MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +6%
GW
GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -34%
PH
Prisma Healthgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +54%

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.

Lifewater Inc

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.

Environment

Global Outreach International Inc

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.

International

Christianity Today International

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.

Religion

World Renew

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…

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Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports

Hope Worldwide Ltd

Motivated by god's love, we partner with our neighbors in need, equip volunteers, respond to disasters and strenghten communities to inspire greater hope in our world.

International

Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion

Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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Mission Without Borders International

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…

International

International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion

Food for the Hungry Inc

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…

International

World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 87 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/65

Grantees still filing

42/65

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$788,484International$366,700Religion$225,000Civil Rights$182,000Education$133,234Health$133,000Philanthropy$103,100

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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