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Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$374k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$6k0%
FY20234$25k50%
FY20227$78k14%
FY20217$84k57%
FY20204$46kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Religion$67kHuman Services$67kEducation$63kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samford University$37,60040%
The Dothan Rotary Foundation Inc$22,000316%
Wiregrass Children's Home Inc$20,00022%
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
Northeastern Baptist College Inc$5,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

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About Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation

How much does Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation give?
Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Human Services (29%), Education (27%).
Who are Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Samford University ($38k), The Dothan Rotary Foundation Inc ($22k), Wiregrass Children's Home Inc ($20k).
Does Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation based?
Searl & Margaret W Dove Christian Foundation is based in AL.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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