· Private foundation
The Dickens 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 $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $194,644 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE OF ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM C HARTMAN JR FUND | $5,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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 +91% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- UOUniversity of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +91%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +99%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC3× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +13%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -83%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
To provide programs, services, technology and leadership to enhance the genetics of the angus breed, broaden its influence within the beef industry and expand the market for superior tasting, high-quality angus beef worldwide.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To support the university of south carolina's athletic department by providing the necessary financial resources for scholarships and other educational services.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Georgia Equine Rescue League Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dickens 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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