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DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,210 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($807,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.7M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$52M
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Dalton State College Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide individual grants, scholarships and educational programs for eligible faculty and residents of the north georgia area

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide direct financial support in the form of scholarships and awards to students attending dalton state college.

    $802,691 spent
    43% of program spending
  2. Provide financial support to faculty and academic programs at dalton state college

    $502,701 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. Program support service focused on the advancement of dalton state college

    $560,001 spent
    30% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,865,393.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($7.7M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2018 Revenue 107 ($5.1M) Expenses 57 ($4.4M) Net assets 96 ($32M)2019 Revenue 91 ($4.3M) Expenses 18 ($1.4M) Net assets 118 ($39M)2020 Revenue 56 ($2.6M) Expenses 15 ($1.2M) Net assets 127 ($42M)2021 Revenue 69 ($3.3M) Expenses 15 ($1.1M) Net assets 143 ($47M)2022 Revenue 56 ($2.6M) Expenses 20 ($1.5M) Net assets 131 ($44M)2023 Revenue 45 ($2.1M) Expenses 19 ($1.4M) Net assets 143 ($48M)2024 Revenue 78 ($3.7M) Expenses 26 ($2.0M) Net assets 157 ($52M)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (26)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $34M to $39M (+17%).

$37M
$34M
$39M
$43M
$48M
$44M
$48M
$53M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.9M
’17
$715k
’18
$2.9M
’19
$1.5M
’20
$2.1M
’21
$1.1M
’22
$674k
’23
$1.7M
’24
11
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

David E Pennington Iii

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1919191514161518
Joined·+0+5+1+0+5+2+4
No longer listed·0551331
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $55k → $31k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $579k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

48%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 83% · 2019 98% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 48% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

54% of DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $778k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Georgia funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $902k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42.3M on record.

Federal$42.3M
grants $42.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$40.3M
  • National Science Foundation$1.2M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$722k
  • Department of Agriculture$30k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

53%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,210 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($807,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,680,210 in grants to DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $807,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing