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The Dogwood Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER | $110,000 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME | $102,500 |
| TERRY WANTZ HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTER | $95,000 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| FLORIDA KEYS SPCA | $50,000 |
| KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE SUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER | $30,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| KEY WEST FILM SOCIETY | $28,000 |
| SCOTT & KIM VERPLANK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FISHTOWN | $25,000 |
| BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CAREITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- TWTERRY WANTZ HISTORICAL RESEARCH CEN5× · 2020–2024 · $491k · revenue +3% · 98% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +81%
- AQAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $282k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- GZGROUND ZERO EMERGENCY TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- WIWOMANKIND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +51%
- TWTENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATREone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.
The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…
With more than 1 million visitors annually, the fort worth zoo strengthens the bond between humans and the environment by promoting responsible stewardship of wildlife and ensuring diverse, high-quality educational and entertaining family…
Operation & maintenance of The Oldest House Museum located on Duval Street, Key West, Florida.
The mission of the Tennessee Williams Key West Exhibit is to collect, preserve, and showcase historic archival materials directly related to the writings and artistic creations that won Tennessee Williams multiple awards, including two…
The kentucky horse park foundation's sole purpose is to provide support for the kentucky horse park.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
This organization's mission is to maintain the official registry of the Appaloosa Horse an equine breed with a color reference; to collect, record and preserve the history and integrity of the breed; to improve, enhance and promote…
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
The akc museum of the dog preserves, interprets and celebrates the role of dogs in society and educates the public about the human-canine bond through its collection of art and exhibits that inspire engagement with dogs.
Connecting people to the American West.
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 56 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 TERRY WANTZ HISTORICAL RESEARCH CEN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds Scott & Kim Verplank Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ↗
- Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES GIVING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PEASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Hunterward Foundation · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · The Ferris Foundation · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc · The Helmerich Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc
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 Dogwood 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Key West Film Society 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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