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Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$139k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$139k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.8MHealth$466kMembership Benefit$368kReligion$133k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$138,946
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEREA COLLEGE$138,946
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - M: $5k → 11%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $378k → 15%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $345k → 11%AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM: $5k → 10%FOLDS OF HONOR: $284k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE THEOLOGICAL S: $5k → 11%CHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOK: $40k → 8%WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - NATH: $5k → 10%ADRIAN COLLEGE: $50k → 12%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $303k → 14%GREEN'S FARMS CHURCH: $50k → 9%YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL - SAMUEL VAUGH: $5k → 12%THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY SEWANEE THE: $5k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL - K: $5k → 11%CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - JO: $5k → 12%WESTERN RESERVE MASONIC COMMUNITY: $254k → 7%OHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN AT COLUMBUS - CORE: $5k → 15%TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOL: $5k → 8%UNIT 40 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%MOODY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - DYLAN: $5k → 14%REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN JA: $5k → 23%ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - JORDA: $5k → 12%BEREA COLLEGE: $139k → 16%ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $336k → 29%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST - JONATHA: $5k → 10%WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - JOEL: $5k → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $21k → 14%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 21%BERKELEY DIVINITY AT YALE UNIVERSIT: $5k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL - K: $5k → 11%OHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATION: $36k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN AT COLUMBUS - MICH: $5k → 15%UNIT 40 EDUCATION FOUNDATOIN: $10k → 9%MOODY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - DYLAN: $5k → 14%ALICE LOYD COLEGE: $16k → 29%AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM: $5k → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20k → 14%YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL - SAMUEL VAUGH: $5k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL - P: $5k → 11%OHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATION: $28k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN AT COLUMBUS - MIRI: $5k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL - P: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIVINITY SCHO: $8k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $27k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $27k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $19k → 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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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$765k · 21 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$765k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+38%

Still filing today

14%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $352k · revenue +63%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2019–2021 · $73k · revenue +126%
  • RT
    REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $378k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $345k · revenue +83%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $284k · revenue +36%
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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Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
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Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
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Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
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Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
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Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
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LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
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John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
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Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westminster Theological Seminary; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 46 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $352,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGESTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $345,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $344,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $284,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONBEREA COLLEGE: $138,946 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE+5 more: $76,000 · EducationSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $378,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENWESTERN RESERVE MASONIC COMMUNITY: $254,000 · OtherWESTERN RESERVE MASONIC COMMUNITYOHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATION: $113,500 · OtherOHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATIONGreen's Farms Church: $50,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AT CHIC: $47,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOK: $40,000 · Other+28 more: $243,000 · Other+28 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $72,500 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $15,000 · Health
Education$1,539,946Other$1,125,500Health$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $352,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $344,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $284,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $138,946 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $72,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Opal Dancey Memorial Foundation 09062 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 46 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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