How much does The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd give?

The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd reported 42 grants totaling $1,323,410 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (10%).

Who are The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Auburn University Foundation ($2.0M), The Andalusia Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc ($358k), Crossover Anchored with Christ ($313k).

Does The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frances and Fm Jones Family Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.

Where is The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd based?

The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd is based in AL.

The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd

The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd at a glance

· Private foundation

The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$375k

Largest

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 2025.

Education$4.2MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.0MReligion$498kEnvironment$396kRecreation & Sports$391kHousing & Shelter$388kScience & Tech$335kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $66k
$10k–50k24 grants · $453k
$50k–250k4 grants · $429k
$250k+1 grant · $375k

$14,500

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
THE FULL TUMMY PROJECT OF COV CNTY	$25,000
LOWER ALABAMA ARTS COALITION	$25,000
DISCOVERING AL MUSEUM	$25,000
OPP CULTURAL ARTS CENTER	$22,000
COVINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$21,000
COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS	$20,000
FRESH AIR FAMILY	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.5M · 66 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.5M

$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+24%

Still filing today

38%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & 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

AU
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
TA
The Andalusia Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +246% · 91% of their budget
CA
Crossover Anchored with Christ
5× · 2021–2025 · $313k · revenue +96%

Funded once

TO
TOWN OF RIVER FALLS
one grant, 2024 · $110k
TC
The Children's Hospital of Alabama
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

Alabama Fallen Warrior Project

Support for families of soldiers killed in war

Public Benefit

Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation

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Alabama Archives & History Foundation

To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.

Arts & Culture

Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame

Arts & Culture

The West Alabama Chamber Foundation Inc

To solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.

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Alabama Veterans' Memorial Foundation Inc

The organization maintains the operations of a memorial and park honoring alabama veterans who served and died since 1900.

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Support Committee for the Alabama Natl Cemetery

Support of al national cemetary

Education

Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc

Solicit contributions and disburse funds to tax-exempt organizations

Philanthropy

Alabama Bicentennial Commission Foundation Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Alabama Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation

Education

Andalusia City Schools Foundation Inc

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.

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Alabama Law Enforcement Appreciation Foundation

To promote, further and advance the goodwill of the community and law enforcement locally and throughout the state of alabama.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of West Alabama Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 95 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,513,729Education$2,797,248Health$622,400Arts & Culture$565,615Housing & Shelter$287,500Food & Nutrition$161,000Human Services$109,500

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

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.

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.

Frances and Fm Jones Family FoundationAL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Solon and Martha Dixon Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Solon and Martha Dixon Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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