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The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jason T Dickerson Family 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.

$379k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$335kAnimals$242kHuman Services$172kFood & Nutrition$167kArts & Culture$121kHousing & Shelter$22kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
$3,342
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY PLACE$75,770
CHEROKEE COUNTY HOMELESS VETS$71,751
PICKENS ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH$55,043
IRON GAIT PERCHERONS$41,558
CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL CENTER$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$25,000
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY$25,000
ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEG$12,500
BERRY COLLEGE$9,687
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$6,347
THE PHOENIX AT UNION HILL$3,342
THE BRIAN CENTER FOR HEALTH$2,727
VOLUNTEER AGING COUNCIL$1,915
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$1,600
CHEROKEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT$1,500
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 (FY18–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETHANY PLACE: $76k → 6%NEW RATTITUDE: $60 → 8%FERST READERS: $2k → 11%INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 35%BETHANY PLACE: $11k → 6%INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 35%BETHANY PLACE: $11k → 6%FOSTER 4 LOVE: $2k → 8%ACT TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%ACT TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $336 → 13%ACES YOUTH HOME: $3k → 11%ANGELS ON HORSEBACK: $1k → 11%ACES YOUTH HOME: $1k → 11%ACES YOUTH HOME: $896 → 11%ACES YOUTH HOME: $691 → 11%ACES YOUTH HOME: $467 → 11%BETHANY PLACE: $1k → 6%MUST MINISTRIES: $2k → 6%NORTH GA ANGEL HOUSE: $1k → 6%MUST MINISTRIES: $404 → 6%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$956k · 44 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
74

Total granted

$956k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+20%

Still filing today

34%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EV
    ETOWAH VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • SL
    SERVICE LEAGUE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +320%
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • BC
    BRIAN CENTER FOR HEALTH A
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Hope House of North Georgia Inc

Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.

Human Services
2
Hope House of Cherokee County Inc

Provide temporary shelter and assistance

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3
A Place of Hope North Georgia Inc

Facilitating the care of underpriveledged children including the care of foster children.

Housing & Shelter
4
Christian Co Humane Society Inc

To care for abused and injured animals and place them in good homes.

Animals
5
Georgia Hope Inc

Provide Displaced Children in a loving, warm, nurturing, educational therapeutic home with foster parents until permanency can be sought or by return to biological families or placement in adoptive homes

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6
Cabin in the Woods Inc

Providing home for handicapped children who are wards of the State of Georgia - Maintenance, Education and Care

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7
Cherokee Humane Society Inc

Humane society

Animals
8
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
9
Etc Georgia Inc

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
10
Cherokee Children's Home Inc

Group home providing long term and emergency care to youth in the care of the south carolina department of social services serving youth ages 13-20.

Human Services
11
Cherokee Elders Council Inc

Support for low income families in need

Arts & Culture
12
Community Share Ministry Co

Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is 575 Fools Inc. 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

36 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. 36 of the 122 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIACherokee County Historical Society: $120,000 · OtherCherokee County Historical SocietyCHEROKEE COUNTY HOMELESS VETS: $95,880 · OtherCHEROKEE COUNTY HOMELESS VETSPICKENS ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH: $94,397 · OtherPICKENS ANIMAL RESCUE RANCHAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITYCHEROKEE FOUNDATION INC: $45,472 · OtherIRON GAIT HORSE RESCUE: $37,242 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · Other+91 more: $296,573 · Other+91 moreBETHANY PLACE INC: $98,243 · Human ServicesBETHANY PLAC…ACES YOUTH HOME INC: $5,963 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $4,596 · Human Services+7 more: $11,368 · Human Services+7 moreIron Gait Percherons Inc: $44,495 · AnimalsETOWAH VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,918 · AnimalsPICKENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,089 · AnimalsHIDDEN ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $3,087 · AnimalsBERRY COLLEGE INC: $20,912 · EducationBeyond Limits Therapeutic Riding Inc: $2,749 · EducationGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC: $1,111 · EducationCHEROKEE MAKERSPACE: $901 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationSERVICE LEAGUE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $6,878 · Community ImprovementTHE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC: $6,744 · Civil RightsSERENADE HEIGHTS INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMELESS COALITION OF CHEROKEE COUN: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$900,564Human Services$120,170Animals$62,589Education$26,173Community Improvement$6,878Civil Rights$6,744Housing & Shelter$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCherokee County Historical Society: $120,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBETHANY PLACE INC: $98,243 over 4y, 34% of budgetIron Gait Percherons Inc: $44,495 over 2y, 24% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $20,912 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETOWAH VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,918 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSERVICE LEAGUE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $6,878 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC: $6,744 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetACES YOUTH HOME INC: $5,963 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPICKENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,089 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $4,596 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,723 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIDDEN ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $3,087 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSERENADE HEIGHTS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBeyond Limits Therapeutic Riding Inc: $2,749 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $2,623 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetACT TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $2,509 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC: $2,019 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $2,016 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIFF FRANK REYNOLDS CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budget575 FOOLS INC: $1,890 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC: $1,590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BARTOW COUNTY INC: $1,514 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoster4Love Inc: $1,511 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANGELS ON HORSEBACK INC: $1,431 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA ANGEL HOUSE INC: $1,218 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING FIRES INC: $1,200 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC: $1,111 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERV INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,021 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS COALITION OF CHEROKEE COUN: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAINS HOSPICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCherokee County Chamber of Commerce: $495 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREDIT UNION OF GEORGIA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW RATTITUDE: $60 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Cherokee County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Iron Gait Percherons Inc ↗
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ETOWAH VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE LEAGUE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ACES YOUTH HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds PICKENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds HIDDEN ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗

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.

Cobb Emc Foundation I…Georgia Power Foundat…McClure Family Founda…Publix Super Markets …The Community Foundat…Atlanta Community Foo…Carmax FoundationNetwork for GoodNatl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Cobb Emc Foundation IncGA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Carmax Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Jason T Dickerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 122 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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