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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $768,337, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,029,928 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $261,591 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
THE KINDNESS CLOSET$25,000
DOVEHOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $15k → 9%MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION: $15k → 9%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $10k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%HOPE OF MOORESVILLE: $8k → 9%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $8k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS LKN: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
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.

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
  • TB
    TRANSFORMATIONS BY NASHVILLE ANGELS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • RF
    Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc. mobilizes volunteers and resources to provide supplemental food assistance to the 1 in 5 children in New Hanover County who struggle with hunger. NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to enhance children's health and well-being by…

Food & Nutrition
2
Crossnore Communities for Children

Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.

Health
3
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
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Childrens Home of North Carolina Inc

To provide family-centered services to children and youth aged 8 to 21 who cannot remain at home due to dependency, neglect, or abuse by providing a wholesom atmosphere that is conducive to their emotional, social, spiritual and physical…

Health
6
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
7
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.

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8
Carolina Family Connections

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

Human Services
9
Kids Interdisciplinary Services Inc

To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused

Health
10
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
11
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.

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12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Triangle

The mission of rmhc is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. our vision is a world where all children have access to medical care and their families are…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dream Center of Forsyth County; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & NutritionFEEDNCRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $100,000 · Food & NutritionRegional Foo…NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COM…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArmer Foundation for Kids: $100,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDream On 3: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $11,370 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $10,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFECHILD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…Duke Energy FoundationUnited Way of Iredell…Speedway Children's C…United Way of Greater…Cecile G Ebert Charit…Giving With Grace Fou…The Leon Levine Found…Jena and Bob Gallaghe…The Presbyterian Hosp…True Homes Foundation…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dale Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dale Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Amikids Inc (Parent): 1% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 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 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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