· Private foundation
The Dalton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUE FREEDOM MINISTRIES | $45,350 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE | $32,500 |
| HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| C4 IMPACT INC | $10,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CEDAR CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SCARLET ROPE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY | $2,165 |
| WORLDWIDE BIOMEDICAL CHARITABLE SERVICES | $2,000 |
| HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION | $1,950 |
| CAMP CARL | $1,200 |
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 (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- TFTrue Freedom Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +9%
- CFCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +59%
- TFTrue Freedom Enterprises6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- DRDESTINY RESCUEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NONORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PCPRIMARY CARE HAITIone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To inspire people to embrace their callings in creation and community by connecting people with nature and faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Great Oak Equine Assisted Programs. 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 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 120 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 True Freedom Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds True Freedom Enterprises ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds C4 IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN ↗
- Who funds DEL REY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Augustine School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE INTERNATIONAL 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: In His Steps Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · United Way of Summit and Medina · Hudson Community Foundation · Artsnow · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Christ Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation
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 Dalton Family 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.
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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