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The Dial Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k20 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAINEER ATHLETIC CLUB | $25,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES | $12,805 |
| MT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $12,450 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $6,200 |
| WALTON RAIDER TOUCHDOWN CLUB | $6,038 |
| Georgia Transplant Foundation | $5,000 |
| NG3 | $4,585 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $1,848 |
| Walton Broadcasting Booster Club | $1,500 |
| Lutzie 43 Foundation | $1,339 |
| Roswell Rotary Foundation | $1,035 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $1,025 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $261k · revenue +57%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +36%
- RFRIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- JFJSU FOOTBALL EXCELLENCE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $26k
- JFJOHNSON FERRY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MCMICHIGAN COMPETING BAND ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue ×33 · 77% of their budget
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 provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
The primary purpose of the association is to promote the educational programs of georgia tech through student body participation in "healthful exercises, recreations, athletic games and contests". the association "develops the young people…
See Disclosure Above.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide a championship experience with integrity on and off the field for student-athletes and the gator nation.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unitedhealthcare Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Walton Raider Tip-Off Club. 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 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 75 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds MT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Walton Raider Touchdown Club Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds KEVIN CROWE MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Touchdown Club of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COMPETING BAND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Link Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRUITTCARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Walton Raider Tip-Off Club ↗
- Who funds Winder Barrow High School Touchdown Booster Club 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Dial 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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