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The Dale Jr Foundation

Giving underprivileged individuals, with a focus on youth, the resources to improve their confidence and education, and the opportunity to achieve extraordinary goals.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHuman Services$901kEducation$463kAnimals$253kPhilanthropy$196kYouth Development$172kCrime & Legal$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $768,337 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,029,928 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $261,591 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $346k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $374k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$150,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$124,425
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF IREDELL CO$100,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$49,367
FEEDNC$30,500
MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL AND WESTERN NC$30,000
CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE$27,500
DOVEHOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
THE KINDNESS CLOSET$25,000
PAT'S PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$22,500
HEALTHREACH COMMUNITY CLINIC$20,000
CAMP LUCK INC$18,000
MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION$16,000
PHAROS PARENTING$15,000
PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$13,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $903k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%KID'S MEALS INC: $100k → 16%NASHVILLE ANGELS: $100k → 14%MOORSEVILLE AREA CHRISTINAN MISSION: $160k → 9%NAZARETH CHILD & FAMILY CONNECTION: $10k → 15%DREAM HUNT & FISHING: $20k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $5k → 16%CAN'D AID FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 4%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $100k → 9%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FAMILY ROOM FOSTERCARE RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 16%MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION: $27k → 9%MOORSEVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION: $25k → 9%MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION: $16k → 9%MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION: $15k → 9%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $15k → 9%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $10k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%BRIGHT BLESSINGS LKN: $8k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $8k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%THE KINDNESS CLOSET: $25k → 9%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $6k → 9%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF IREDELL CO: $100k → 9%IREDELL COAST: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
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CO
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NC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 31 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
27

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+5%

Still filing today

84%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $696k · revenue +76%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue +49%
  • MA
    Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $135k
  • FP
    FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    TRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE ANGELS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
2
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
4
Carolina Children's Charity Inc

To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.

Health
5
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

6
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
7
Kids Interdisciplinary Services Inc

To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused

Health
8
Family Support Network of Central Carolina

Family support network of central carolina believes every child deserves a thriving family. our mission is to provide comprehensive support, education, and resources for families facing two distinct challenges: those with infants admitted…

Human Services
9
Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc

The parenting path works to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect by strengthening families, enhancing parent/child relationships and creating safer, more stable communities.

10
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
11
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

12
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Room Foster Care Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#18#7#21#15#0#13#11#3#16
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr14%47%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,111

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

62 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 69 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $628,737 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc — $265,500 · Human ServicesMooresville Area Christian Miss…BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN — $155,000 · Human ServicesBARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDRE…DIAKONOS INC — $138,500 · Human ServicesDIAKONOS INCTRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE ANGELS — $100,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE AN…HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INCKIDS' MEALS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC+10 more — $148,900 · Human Services+10 moreNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $757,950 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCIREDELL STATESVILLE SCHOOLS — $140,337 · OtherIREDELL STATESVILLE SCHOOLSCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS — $135,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLSFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 · OtherCAMP LUCK INC — $144,326 · OtherCAMP LUCK INCCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $120,000 · OtherCLASSROOM CENTRAL INCExchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Iredell — $92,155 · Other+17 more — $427,094 · Other+17 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $695,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIO…HealthReach Community Clinic — $162,000 · HealthHealthReach Community…Pats Place Child Advocacy Center — $114,100 · HealthPats Place Child Advo…Armer Foundation for Kids — $100,000 · HealthArmer Foundation for …+6 more — $56,733 · HealthFEEDNC — $451,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDNCNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $100,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COM…Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — $100,000 · Food & NutritionRegional Foo…+2 more — $17,500 · Food & NutritionRESCUE RANCH INC — $155,000 · AnimalsSpay Neuter Charlotte — $50,394 · AnimalsPIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $18,500 · AnimalsLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC — $17,500 · AnimalsTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyJIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropySPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,500 · PhilanthropyHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC — $37,200 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT INC — $7,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$1,636,637Other$1,916,862Health$1,128,333Food & Nutrition$668,500Animals$241,394Philanthropy$195,500Youth Development$186,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $695,500 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $628,737 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDNC — $451,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc — $265,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetHealthReach Community Clinic — $162,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetRESCUE RANCH INC — $155,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN — $155,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP LUCK INC — $144,326 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetDIAKONOS INC — $138,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center — $114,100 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArmer Foundation for Kids — $100,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Iredell — $92,155 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetPOWER CROSS — $52,429 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSpay Neuter Charlotte — $50,394 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC — $37,200 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $35,577 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY — $32,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetACE & TJ'S GRIN KIDS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDREAM HUNT & FISHING PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $18,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSTATESVILLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $17,788 over 1y, 88% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDream On 3 — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMIKIDS INC (PARENT) — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCan'd Aid — $12,450 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc — $10,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAFECHILD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC40.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation · Giving With Grace Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc

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 The Dale Jr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Amikids Inc (Parent)1% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Dale Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dale Jr Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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