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Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$299k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

19
’18
28
’19
10
’20
19
’21
19
’22
17
’23
15
’24

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

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$830kHealth$244kRecreation & Sports$240kHuman Services$83kYouth Development$70kArts & Culture$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kOther$0
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY18–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $11k → 14%A HAND UP INC: $8k → 7%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES - GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $5k → 5%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
22

Total granted

$1.4M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+39%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • BS
    Ball State University Foundation Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $517k · revenue +23%
  • US
    UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $188k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • W
    WFYI
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • TH
    THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +7%
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
Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 19 Scholarship Fund

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.

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2
Carpenters' Local 157 Scholarship Fund

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'…

Education
3
Ua Local 630 Scholarship Fund

Award scholarships to children of members of Local 630

Education
4
Teamsters Local 1205 Timothy Lynch Memorial Scholarship Fund

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…

Education
5
Harry Cashin Memorial Scholarship Fund

Provide college scholarships to ILA Local 1804-1 members and their families

Education
6
Cement and Concrete Workers Scholarship Fund

To provide scholarships for the dependents of union members of the cement and concrete workers district council.

Education
7
Laborers' Local 300 Scholarship Fund

To provide scholarships for families of local union members.

Education
8
Scholarship Fund of Steamfitters Lu 420

To provide post high school scholarships to selected dependent children of eligible union members.

Education
9
Plumbers Local Union No 200 Scholarship Fund

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…

Education
10
Sheet Metal Training Fund

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…

Employment
11
James R Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc

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.

Education
12
Captain David Lyman Maritime Scholarship Fund

Provide for maritime scholarships via california maritime academy

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $1,005,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC+3 more: $19,250 · PhilanthropyBall State University Foundation Inc: $516,625 · EducationBall State University Foundati…Local 39 EDUCATIONAL Scholarship FUND: $56,000 · EducationLocal 39 EDUCATIONAL Scholarsh…SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,300 · EducationSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 · EducationPlasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F: $25,100 · EducationUniversity of Indianapolis: $23,500 · Education+4 more: $14,400 · EducationWA-NEE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherWA-NEE COMMUNITY …NCGA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherNCGA FOUNDATIONMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherMICHIGAN TECHNOLO…CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC: $29,400 · OtherCARPENTERS HELPIN…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC CO RENPSG: $25,000 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GL…ANDERSON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $20,000 · OtherPIRATES INC: $16,000 · OtherWFYI: $15,000 · Other+30 more: $102,066 · Other+30 moreTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $92,475 · HealthTHE CHILD…LEFTY CLASSIC INC: $42,500 · HealthLEFTY CLA…IN SEARCH OF A CURE: $30,000 · HealthIN SEARCH…SHOOT FOR A CURE: $19,750 · HealthSHOOT FOR…Kids Cancer Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Health+4 more: $16,000 · Health+4 moreUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $188,333 · Recreation & SportsInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $45,500 · Human ServicesA HAND UP INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCARMEL FOP LODGE 185 FOUNDATION INC: $18,300 · Crime & LegalINDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN POLICE MOTORCY DRILL TEAM INC: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$1,024,250Education$695,925Other$397,466Health$208,225Recreation & Sports$188,333Human Services$58,000Crime & Legal$21,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $1,005,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $516,625 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $188,333 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $92,475 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLocal 39 EDUCATIONAL Scholarship FUND: $56,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $45,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEFTY CLASSIC INC: $42,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,300 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetIN SEARCH OF A CURE: $30,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC: $29,400 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPlasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F: $25,100 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHOOT FOR A CURE: $19,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCARMEL FOP LODGE 185 FOUNDATION INC: $18,300 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetPIRATES INC: $16,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES FOR CHILDREN'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKids Cancer Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetA HAND UP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEROES CLUB INC: $5,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSMART HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL ANDRETTI FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN POLICE MOTORCY DRILL TEAM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ASSOC PLUMB & PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 123 & MECH ASSOC OFCENTRAL FLORIDA: $2,750 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEL CLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA SMACNA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST F: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMACNA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS: $760 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL NO 20 APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING TRUST: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $350 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.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncJohn R Irving Family …International Assn of…Hamilton County Commu…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…
Lilly Endowment IncIN14.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 67 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.

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