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DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY

DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,020 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($350,020). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$101k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$119k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Dispersion Philanthropy does

Mission

Our mission and purpose is to provide educational opportunities and resources to help philanthropic donors and their advisors have the most sustainable and equitable impact possible. Our programs include research on the philanthropic activities and trends of individuals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. New advisor curriculum to support various interventions that will increase the ability of advisors to increase hight net-worth giving.

    $10,833 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,833.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($350k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2025 Revenue 29 ($101k) Expenses 4 ($13k) Net assets 382 ($119k)
20242025
Revenue (29)Expenses (4)Net assets (382)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 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $119k (+282%).

$31k
$119k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’24
$88k
’25
111
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.

Chief executive

Crystal Thompkins

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed68
Joined·+2
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY’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

DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.

WA
MI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin87% · top quartile
Months of reserve111.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−71% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY?
DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,020 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($350,020). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $400,020 in grants to DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY.
Who is the largest funder of DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISPERSION PHILANTHROPY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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