· Private foundation
Rick & Donna Dickson 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOD'S FAN CLUB DBA PROJECT TOUCH | $8,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL BIBLE FELLOWSHIP | $3,000 |
| ORCHARD CHURCH | $1,500 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY MISSION OF HOPE | $1,175 |
| MCGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $500 |
| URBAN YOUTH MINISTIRES | $500 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | $200 |
| MASTERMEDIA INTERNATIONAL | $200 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- GFGOD'S FAN CLUB DBA PROJECT TOUCH8× · 2017–2024 · $46k
- CCCALVARY CHAPEL BIBLE FELLOWSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $32k
- CCCornerstone Community Church8× · 2017–2024 · $12k
Funded once
- CCRUone grant, 2017 · $2k
- WMWhite Mountain Institutegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +29%
- CCCORNERSTONE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
SMI is a religious ministry. It conducts weekly TV and radio ministry. It also does itinerant religious teaching and music ministry and produces religious resources for churches and individuals.
Engaged in missionary training, organizing churches, evangelism, and related Christian activities.
Shine exists to proclaim Jesus Christ to all lost peoples around the world, to mobilize the local church to embrace the Great Commission, and to equip the present and next generation of leaders in their spiritual quest and service to God…
The purpose of IMI is reaching nationals through nationals in ministry.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through radio literature internet and personal contact.
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
Provide state of the art water filters into the hands of mothers and train them to provide clean water for themselves , their families and others in their communities.
Aid to destitute in haiti
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
The mission and purpose of White Fields World Ministries is found in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 28:19,20 "Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the…
To identify, assess, and come alongside partner ministries to strategically increase their media impact.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is White Mountain Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 35 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 URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Mastermedia International Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds White Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds DE LUZ WOMENS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAITI ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Lily Kelly Ministries ↗
- Who funds SOLE HOPE INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rick & Donna Dickson 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.
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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