· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $696k · revenue +76%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue +49%- MAMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $135k
- FPFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TBTRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE ANGELSone 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.
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 Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused
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…
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.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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."
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.
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 field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP LUCK INC ↗
- Who funds DIAKONOS INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE ANGELS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Armer Foundation for Kids ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Iredell ↗
- Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
- Who funds Spay Neuter Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds ACE & TJ'S GRIN KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KINDNESS CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds JIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM HUNT & FISHING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE 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: 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.
- Amikids Inc (Parent) — 1% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida 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.
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