· Private foundation
Thomas B Dixson Et Al
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO ZION | $7,000 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO HENRY | $7,000 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO SAMUEL | $7,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO HANNAH | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM FBO | $5,000 |
| GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO BETHANY | $5,000 |
| MIDWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM | $5,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE FBO MARY STOCKERBRAND | $5,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your 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 +37% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- EUEmory University4× · 2021–2025 · $279k · revenue +32%
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN3× · 2020–2022 · $182k · revenue +4%
Samford University5× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- DTDIXSON T B FAM MEM FUND-CROSSNOREone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -11% · 65% of their budget
- LULONGWOOD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $14k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samford University and the most unlike its peers is Dixson T B Fam Mem Fund-Crossnore. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 84 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds DIXSON T B FAM MEM FUND-CROSSNORE ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Lilly Endowment Inc · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Dixson Et Al 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.