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The Dixie Group Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$166kPhilanthropy$114kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$21kYouth Development$17kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA - DALTON$6,500
MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA - ROANOKE$3,000
UNITED WAY OF GORDON COUNTY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FBO AUBREY MOCK$2,500
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY FOB COLIN DUCKLESS$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG FBO MARGARET A STUDY$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FBO ELIZABETH WILKEY$2,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA$2,500
AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOB RAYLEE MALLOW$2,500
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FBO KIERSTIN MORENO$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKLEY FOB CHRISTINE PEDRAZA$2,500
CALIFORNIA ST UNIVERSITY FRESNO FBO LIZBETH PENA RAMOS$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FBO EMMA OPHEIM$2,500
AUBURN UNIVERSITY JILLIAN S JOHNSON$2,500
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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $500 → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $250 → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $250 → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $250 → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $250 → 12%AIM CENTER: $500 → 12%AIM CENTER: $250 → 12%AIM CENTER: $250 → 12%AIM CENTER: $250 → 12%AIM CENTER: $250 → 12%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

NH
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
CO
AR
TN
NC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$349k · 47 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
6

Total granted

$349k
$12k

Still filing today

36%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +145%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +41%
  • HF
    HopeWay Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON FBO ERICA DOMINGUEZ
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • MH
    MARS HILL UNIVERSITY FBO KENNETH SLOCUM
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF COASTAL GEORGIA FBO PARIS WILLIAMS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Dunwoody College of Technology

Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…

Education
3
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
7
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
8
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
9
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is HopeWay 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA - DALTON: $31,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA - DALTONTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONUNITED FUND OF ATMORE INC: $24,000 · OtherUNITED FUND OF ATMORE INCCHATT FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG FBO BROCK SOLLIE: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FBO KIERSTIN MORENO: $10,000 · OtherSCAD STUDENT ACCOUNTS OFFICE FBO LINDSEY SMALL: $10,000 · Other+34 more: $153,000 · Other+34 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOU…UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAS…United Way of Gordon County Inc: $13,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Gor…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $12,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRE…DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $600 · EducationGEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · EducationALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $400 · EducationHopeWay Foundation: $6,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,200 · HealthTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE AIM CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$292,500Philanthropy$55,500Education$10,400Health$7,200Human Services$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Gordon County Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AIM CENTER INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $400 over 4y, 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 THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Gordon County Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗

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.

Hazel Montague Hutcheson FoundationTN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Hamico Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Journey Health Foundation · Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation · The Howard Fund · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan 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 Dixie Group Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dixie Group Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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