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The Dobbs Family Charitable Foundation Trust Agreement
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of The Dobbs Family Charitable Foundation Trust Agreement’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Balinese Children's Education Found | $10,000 |
| FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| La Clinica de La Raza | $5,000 |
| FOOTHILLS EQUESTRIAN NATURE CNTR FE | $1,000 |
| TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| CONSERVING CAROLINA | $1,000 |
| THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC | $1,000 |
| CHAMPIONS FOR WILDLIFE | $1,000 |
| TRYON LITTLE THEATER | $1,000 |
| STEPS TO HOPE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS INC | $1,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE 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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +66%- FRFEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +60%
- FHFoothills Humane Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NANoah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Incone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -20%
- CMCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -36%
- PKPORTOLA KIDS INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -2%
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 california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Environmental stewardship, education, research, and rehabilitation of injured birds of prey
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Conservation of ecological systems and natural settings while providing environmental education and recreation.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…
The turtle conservancy is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tryon Arts and Crafts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Portola Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING EQUINES REGAIN DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTOLA KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Champions for Wildlife ↗
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: Polk County Community Foundation Inc · Marjorie M & Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund · The Lomax Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Dobbs Family Charitable Foundation Trust Agreement 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.