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The Dalton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$411kReligion$323kEnvironment$262kCommunity Improvement$122kHuman Services$109kAnimals$106kCivil Rights$81kEducation$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
$1,200
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$8,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM MINISTRIES: $1k → 12%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH: $1k → 14%EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 12%HELPING HANDS INC: $167 → 17%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $7k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 42 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
67

Total granted

$1.6M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+14%

Still filing today

57%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • TF
    True Freedom Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +59%
  • TF
    True Freedom Enterprises
    6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • DR
    DESTINY RESCUE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • PC
    PRIMARY CARE HAITI
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
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
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
2
National Church Residences At Home Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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3
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
4
Lifecare Hospice

The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.

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5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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6
Ohio Living Holdings

See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…

Human Services
7
Hospice of Central Ohio

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…

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8
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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9
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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10
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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11
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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12
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMIT CHURCH: $134,264 · OtherSUMMIT CHURCHRELINKORG: $121,772 · OtherRELINKORGSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $74,068 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSEBROKEN CHAINS MINISTRY: $61,500 · OtherBROKEN CHAINS MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $53,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $51,560 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDESTINY RESCUE: $50,000 · OtherDESTINY RESCUEST AUGUSTINE: $30,674 · OtherHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $39,780 · Other+86 more: $233,872 · Other+86 moreTrue Freedom Inc: $348,388 · Crime & LegalTrue Freedom Inc+1 more: $2,165 · Crime & LegalCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $189,908 · EnvironmentCONSERVANCY FOR…HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $44,128 · EnvironmentHITCHCOCK WOODS…+2 more: $180 · EnvironmentALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $45,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $34,500 · Civil RightsPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15,055 · EducationCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $14,675 · EducationC4 IMPACT INC: $10,000 · EducationAugustine School: $5,012 · Education+3 more: $3,350 · EducationTrue Freedom Enterprises: $60,550 · PhilanthropyLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,150 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $53,350 · ReligionDEL REY MINISTRIES: $5,483 · ReligionCAMP CARL LTD: $3,195 · Religion+3 more: $2,077 · Religion
Other$850,690Crime & Legal$350,553Environment$234,216Civil Rights$80,000Education$78,092Philanthropy$64,200Religion$64,105

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 budgetTrue Freedom Inc: $348,388 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $189,908 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTrue Freedom Enterprises: $60,550 over 6y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $53,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $45,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $44,128 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $39,780 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $34,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15,055 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $14,675 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetC4 IMPACT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHands Together Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN: $5,576 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDEL REY MINISTRIES: $5,483 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,885 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP CARL LTD: $3,195 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE MISSION: $3,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY: $2,165 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM MINISTRIES INC: $2,055 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORLDWIDE BIOMEDICAL CHARITABLE SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE ROSE FOUNDATION: $1,049 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE ADDICTION RECOVERY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL: $345 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $247 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre of Ohio Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 C4 IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hands Together 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 ↗

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.

In His Steps Foundati…Akron Community Found…Burton D Morgan Found…The Community Foundat…United Way of Summit …Hudson Community Foun…ArtsnowCharles E and Mabel M…The Welty Family Foun…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Christ FoundationThe Lozick Family Fou…
In His Steps FoundationOH33.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dalton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dalton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dalton Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dalton Family 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 120 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-PF 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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