· Private foundation
The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $453k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $429k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LBW COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $375,000 |
| CROSSOVER ANCHORED WITH CHRIST | $151,450 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ANDALUSIA KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BETHESDA HOUSE INC | $52,500 |
| MIZELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| SOUTHERN PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION INC | $31,860 |
| DISCOVERING AL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| LOWER ALABAMA ARTS COALITION | $25,000 |
| THE FULL TUMMY PROJECT OF COV CNTY | $25,000 |
| OPP CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $22,000 |
| COVINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $21,000 |
| CATER 2 COPS | $20,000 |
| FRESH AIR FAMILY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
66 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 33 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
- TAThe Andalusia Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +144% · 90% of their budget
- CACrossover Anchored with Christ5× · 2021–2025 · $313k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF RIVER FALLSone grant, 2024 · $110k
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabamaone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Support for families of soldiers killed in war
To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.
To solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.
The organization maintains the operations of a memorial and park honoring alabama veterans who served and died since 1900.
Support of al national cemetary
Solicit contributions and disburse funds to tax-exempt organizations
The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.
The purpose of the foundation is to promote academic excellence in the andalusia city school system and support programs that are outside the scope of the normal school budget.
To promote, further and advance the goodwill of the community and law enforcement locally and throughout the state of alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of West Alabama Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cater 2 Cops. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 95 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 The Andalusia Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Crossover Anchored with Christ ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds ANDALUSIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPP CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Merediths Miracles Inc ↗
- Who funds LYMAN WARD MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds Sav A Life of Covington County Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals of Love Opp ↗
- Who funds MIZELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Full Tummy Project of Covington County ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Lower Alabama Arts Coalition Inc ↗
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: Frances and Fm Jones Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Andalusia Health Services Inc · Alfa Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Solon and Martha Dixon Fd 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.
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