· Private foundation
Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES PARISH | $10,000 |
| BURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| THE HARRELSON CENTER | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN NC | $10,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| BRIGADE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- LWLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
- OHOPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +20%
- CFCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +563%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
To solicit and receive contributions for the county owned historical museum. To purchase and receive museum pieces and artifacts of local historical value. To support and assist in expanding the work of the museum.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
Build thriving communities by protecting and renewing our history and architectural treasures.
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
The Alliance For Historic Hillsborough has a mission to inspire visitors and residents to experience authentic Hillsborough.
To enhance the university of north carolina at wilmington educational mission, without limitation, overseeing and assisting with the acquisition and financing of capital assets for the university.
To pursue the development of research facilities and research projects for the university of north carolina at wilmington.
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
To present a broad range of educational, entertainment, and cultural programs; to be a major regional resource for quality spaces, equipment and services; and to preserve the symbol of Wilmington's cultural heritage for future generations
To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opera House Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNCW CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina 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: Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · The Weil Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation · Stein Family Charitable Foundation · Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County · William a Stern Foundation
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 Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.