· Private foundation
Thomas B Dameron Jr 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For Greater Atlanta Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $241k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k33 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERRIE-WOODE FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $18,000 |
| WORLD IMPACT | $12,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $12,000 |
| FOCUS RALEIGH | $10,000 |
| WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CBWD SCH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICES COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY WOMENS CARE | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN HEADWATERS | $6,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANGEL MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| BENT MOUNTAIN CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $131k · revenue +9%- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $44k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIOone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +7%
- TATOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +28%
- WCWAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 79 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HAITI ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN HEADWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY WOMEN'S CARE ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Rebecca J Dameron Foundation · The Baker Family Foundation Inc · Replogle Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 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 Thomas B Dameron Jr 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 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.