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Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation at a glance

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Thomas B Dameron Jr 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.

$241k
Granted FY2022
43
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, 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

5
’17
21
’18
27
’19
27
’20
29
’21
24
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.2MHealth$194kYouth Development$161kEducation$126kFood & Nutrition$125kReligion$109kEnvironment$76kInternational$71kOther$0
02FY2022 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k33 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
$4,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERRIE-WOODE FOUNDATION$38,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$18,000
WORLD IMPACT$12,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$12,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICES COMMITTEE$10,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$10,000
WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CBWD SCH$10,000
GATEWAY WOMENS CARE$10,000
FOCUS RALEIGH$10,000
APPALACHIAN HEADWATERS$6,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP$6,000
BENT MOUNTAIN CENTER$5,000
ANGEL MINISTRIES$5,000
STAND TO REASON$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROAD STREET CLINIC: $5k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC: $4k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC: $4k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC: $4k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC: $1k → 12%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 51 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
17

Total granted

$1.0M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

47%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHealthReligionEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $131k · revenue +9%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $44k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIO
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • TA
    TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • TA
    TREES ATLANTA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +194%
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
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
6
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
7
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
8
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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12
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Wake County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,121,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FDTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,121,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INCMerrie-Woode Foundation Inc: $130,500 · OtherMerrie-Woode Foundation I…HAYES BARTON UTD METHODIST CHURCH: $69,500 · OtherHAYES BARTON UTD METHODIS…WORLD IMPACT INC: $52,000 · OtherWORLD IMPACT INCAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE …COMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $39,000 · OtherDUKE UNIV SCHOOL OF NURSING: $31,000 · OtherBENT MOUNTAIN CENTER: $30,500 · OtherFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $25,000 · Other+48 more: $330,350 · Other+48 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $100,000 · InternationalHEALING HAITI: $38,000 · InternationalAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $35,500 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN HEADWATERS INC: $24,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $3,000 · EnvironmentALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,350 · EnvironmentALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $44,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,800 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIO: $8,000 · HealthMISSION TRAVIS MERCY: $5,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $33,000 · ReligionANGEL MINISTRIES: $7,500 · ReligionSTAND TO REASON: $5,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationDavidson College: $10,000 · EducationTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $7,500 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$2,242,000Other$747,850International$138,000Environment$72,850Health$67,800Religion$46,500Education$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,121,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,121,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMerrie-Woode Foundation Inc: $130,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $39,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHEALING HAITI: $38,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $35,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN HEADWATERS INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY WOMEN'S CARE: $21,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $14,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Atlanta Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIO: $8,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetANGEL MINISTRIES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND TO REASON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION TRAVIS MERCY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds Junior League of Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHALLENGING DISORGANIZATIO ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Bell Koonce Burnette …A E Finley Foundation…Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…North Carolina Commun…Rebecca J Dameron Fou…The Baker Family Foun…Replogle Family Found…Bell Cook Family Foun…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…The Community Foundat…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 79 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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