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The Dixon Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UAB DEPARTMENT OF PEDATRICS | $201,511 |
| VESTAVIA HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,100 |
| CAMP SMILE-A-MILE | $5,100 |
| DANIELS DRIVE | $5,000 |
| TIMES OUT INC | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA GAME CHANGERS | $5,000 |
| DOUBLE OAK COMMUNITY CHURCH MT LAUREL | $5,000 |
| SHINE ON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| RESOLVE- FIGHT FOR ALABAMA FAMILIES | $2,500 |
| ASHFORD PARK SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| GATEWAY | $1,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- UDUAB DEPARTMENT OF PEDATRICS4× · 2021–2024 · $738k
- UDUAB DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS2× · 2019–2020 · $372k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- UGUAB GRAY HUNTINGTON DISEASE RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k
- UDUAB DEPT OF NEUROLOGYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ACASPERGER CONNECTION INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
We improve the lives of the people in our care affected by autism.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Advancing effective methodology and behavior analytic treatment to improve outcomes of individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Times Out Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 36 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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds Times Out Inc ↗
- Who funds Alabama Game Changers ↗
- Who funds ASHFORD PARK SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Gateway ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dixon 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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