· Private foundation
William Thomas Dawson Family Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $287,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| GADSDEN MUSEUM OF ARTS | $5,000 |
| JAMES M BARRIE CENTER | $5,000 |
| GADSDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| 2ND CHANCE INC | $5,000 |
| ETOWAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| DREAM CENTER | $5,000 |
| ETOWAH FREE COMMUNITY CLINIC | $5,000 |
| GADSDEN FIRE DEPT GIFTS F | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| A WALK THROUGH TIME | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $560k · revenue -9%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY8× · 2018–2025 · $47k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH4× · 2017–2023 · $43k
Funded once
- GSGADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $520k
- BGBoys Girls Clubone grant, 2019 · $51k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NE ALone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Social services
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
To feed the needy
Autauga Interfaith Care Center, Inc. is a cooperative outreach ministry of Christian churches and individuals in Autauga County, Alabama.
Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance for 10442 individuals
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 37 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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SNELLGROVE CIVITAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gadsden State Cardinal Foundation ↗
- Who funds James M Barrie Center for Children ↗
- Who funds ETOWAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GADSDEN ↗
- Who funds THE WAY OF THE CROSS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Etowah Baptist Missions Center ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLSIE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Etowah County Inc · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Thomas Dawson Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Thomas Dawson Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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