North Carolina · 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $768k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $935k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Dale Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $618k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $465k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $620k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $514k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $558k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $345k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $754k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $757,950 | 9 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc | $695,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $628,737 | 9 | 1% |
| Feednc | $451,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc | $265,500 | 8 | 4% |
| HealthReach Community Clinic | $162,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Rescue Ranch Inc | $155,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Barium Springs Home for Children | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Luck Inc | $144,326 | 9 | 8% |
| Iredell Statesville Schools | $140,337 | 2 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Dale Jr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Dale Jr Foundation
- How much does The Dale Jr Foundation give?
- The Dale Jr Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $768,337, out of $1,029,928 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dale Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Dale Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc ($758k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc ($696k), Blessings in a Backpack Inc ($629k).
- Does The Dale Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dale Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Dale Jr Foundation based?
- The Dale Jr Foundation is based in NC.
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