· Private foundation
Thomas B Dixson Et Al
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 SAMUEL | $7,000 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO HENRY | $7,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO HANNAH | $6,000 |
| MIDWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM | $5,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE FBO MARY STOCKERBRAND | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM FBO | $5,000 |
| GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO BETHANY | $5,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FBO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUEmory University4× · 2021–2025 · $279k · revenue +32%
Samford University5× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +61%- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY5× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +52%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas B Dixson Et Al funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas B Dixson Et Al. Bigger dots raise more.
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