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The Dudley Litton Foundation

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Dudley Litton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$47k7%
FY202416$51k19%
FY202318$48k28%
FY202220$51k20%
FY202119$45k32%
FY202019$40kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$109kHuman Services$28kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kEducation$14kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$7kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$30,0006n/a
Wieuca Road Baptist Church$21,0006n/a
Must Ministries Inc$14,50060%
Samaritan's Purse$13,00040%
Help the Persecuted Inc$11,2005n/a
Avery County Habitat for Humanity$8,00050%
Northside Education Inc$5,01430%
Breakthrough T1d$2,75030%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00020%
Wears Valley Ranch Inc$1,75020%
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All grantees of The Dudley Litton Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$30,0006n/a
Wieuca Road Baptist Church$21,0006n/a
Must Ministries Inc$14,50060%
Samaritan's Purse$13,00040%
Help the Persecuted Inc$11,2005n/a
Avery County Habitat for Humanity$8,00050%
Northside Education Inc$5,01430%
Breakthrough T1d$2,75030%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00020%
Wears Valley Ranch Inc$1,75020%
Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation$1,50010%
Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church$1,5002n/a
Open Hand Atlanta Inc$1,00010%
Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta$7501n/a
Bluefield University$75010%
The Study Hall Inc$50010%
K-Life of Atlanta$5001n/a

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dudley Litton Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMust Ministries Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAvery County Habitat for Humanity: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNorthside Education Inc: $5,014 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWears Valley Ranch Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Hand Atlanta Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBluefield University: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Study Hall Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Dudley Litton Foundation

How much does The Dudley Litton Foundation give?
The Dudley Litton Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $46,749 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Dudley Litton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Human Services (12%), International (11%).
Who are The Dudley Litton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($30k), Wieuca Road Baptist Church ($21k), Must Ministries Inc ($15k).
Does The Dudley Litton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dudley Litton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dudley Litton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is The Dudley Litton Foundation based?
The Dudley Litton Foundation is based in GA.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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