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Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable 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
78% of Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Elkhart County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $299k. 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $52,500 |
| UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WA-NEE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LEFTY CLASSIC INC | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC | $15,750 |
| CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| LOCAL 39 EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $12,000 |
| SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS | $10,000 |
| SHOOT FOR A CURE | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| IN SEARCH OF A CURE | $5,000 |
| PLASTERERS & CEMENT MASONS SCHOLARSHIP | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $3,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 11 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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BSBall State University Foundation Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $517k · revenue +23%
- USUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2022 · $188k · revenue +11%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WWFYIone grant, 2018 · $15k
- THTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +4%
- CFCONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +84%
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.
The fund provides financial assistance through the awarding of scholarships to a spouse or dependent child of active and retired members in good standing of the sheet metal workers' international association local union no. 19.
The program was designed to assist qualified applicants in attaining the benefits of a college education. the carpenters local 157 scholarship fund offers a way to express our continued efforts supporting education for our members'…
Award scholarships to children of members of Local 630
Teamsters local 1205 timothy lynch memorial scholarship fund exists for the purpose of making college education more easily accessible to the children and dependents of international brotherhood of teamsters local 1205 by providing…
Provide college scholarships to ILA Local 1804-1 members and their families
To provide scholarships for the dependents of union members of the cement and concrete workers district council.
To provide scholarships for families of local union members.
To provide post high school scholarships to selected dependent children of eligible union members.
The purpose of the fund is to provide scholarships for the children of the members of plumbers local union no. 200 of the united association of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipe fitting industry of the united states and…
Our mission is to be the leader in the recruitment, education & training of skilled craftspeople in the sheet metal industry. our vision is to be the gateway to a high paying & meaningful career in the sheet metal industry that enriches…
To award scholarships to dependents of teamsters union active and retired members in order to enable the recipients to attend accredited post-secondary educational institutions.
Provide for maritime scholarships via california maritime academy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smacna College of Fellows. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 67 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Local 39 EDUCATIONAL Scholarship FUND ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds LEFTY CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IN SEARCH OF A CURE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Plasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F ↗
- Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds SHOOT FOR A CURE ↗
- Who funds CARMEL FOP LODGE 185 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIRATES INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES FOR CHILDREN'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds A HAND UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEROES CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPECTRUM ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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