· Private foundation
Martha Marshall Dykes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wilson Hospice House | $38,144 |
| Shepherd Center | $21,143 |
| St Simons Island Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Christ Church Frederica | $5,000 |
| Lovett School | $3,000 |
| UM Foundation | $1,500 |
| Southern Methodist University | $1,500 |
| First Friendship Baptist Church | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +59%
- SHSUMTER HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $111k · revenue +126%
- HOHouse of TIME Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- KKKappa Kappa Alumni Assocone grant, 2017 · $24k
- LALIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The mission of the spartanburg humane society is to provide quality care to lost and unwanted pets while raising community awareness about issues affecting companion animals.
Stray Hearts is a no-kill animal shelter and adoption facility providing humane care and shelter for more than 1,500 surrendered, abandoned and abused companion animals per year.
The florence area humane society was founded in 1974 as a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization that rescues and shelters abandoned, abused, and neglected animals in the florence community. the mission of fahs is to…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The organization's purpose is to assist the humane society of south coastal georgia prevent cruelty towards animals.
To promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our county.
Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.
The society's mission is to provide and promote the humane treatment of animals in the greater memphis area through a variety of services including unwanted pet rescue, pet adoptions, spay-neuter program, and various education programs.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Sheltering homeless animals, facilitating adoption, providing low-cost spay/neuter services, and foster care for dogs and cats.
To save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches.
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christ Church Frederica. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 18 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.
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.
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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 Martha Marshall Dykes 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.
- Peace of Heart Community 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.