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Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965 at a glance

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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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$69kReligion$38kEducation$31kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$11kCommunity Improvement$10kMembership Benefit$5kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SPIRIT MED PRODUCTION: $10k → 14%PRESERVATION NC: $1k → 8%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 10%GIRLS LEADERSHIP OF WILMINGTON ACADEMY: $5k → 12%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1k → 8%UNCW: $10k → 12%UNCW: $6k → 12%ST JAMES PARISH: $15k → 12%ST JAMES PARISH: $13k → 12%THE HARRELSON CENTER: $10k → 12%BURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE AND GARDENS: $10k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 12%FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN NC: $10k → 12%ST JAMES PARISH: $10k → 12%OPERA HOUSE THEATER COMPANY: $8k → 12%THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WILMINGTON AND NHC: $5k → 12%CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETARY: $5k → 12%CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE BELAMY MANSION: $3k → 12%OEPRA HOUSE THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 12%OPERA HOUSE THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 12%CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%THE BELAMY MANSION: $1k → 12%HISTORIC WILMINGTON FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 12%STEPUP WILMINGTON: $1k → 12%STEPUP WILMINGTON: $1k → 12%BURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE AND GARDENS: $500 → 12%CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $15k → 12%CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $5k → 12%BRIGADE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $1k → 12%BRIGADE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $1k → 12%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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 9 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$115k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-16%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LW
    LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • OH
    OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +563%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • GL
    GIRLS LEADERSHIP OF WILMINGTON ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Cape Fear Museum Associates Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Caldwell Arts Council Inc

To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc

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3
Preservation Greensboro Inc

Build thriving communities by protecting and renewing our history and architectural treasures.

Arts & Culture
4
North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmin

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Alliance for Historic Hillsborough

The Alliance For Historic Hillsborough has a mission to inspire visitors and residents to experience authentic Hillsborough.

Arts & Culture
7
Uncw Corporation Ii

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.

Education
8
Uncw Research Foundation

To pursue the development of research facilities and research projects for the university of north carolina at wilmington.

Education
9
Carolina Common Enterprise

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…

Community Improvement
10
Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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11
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated

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

Arts & Culture
12
Arts North Carolina Inc

To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JAMES PARISH: $37,500 · OtherST JAMES PARISHBURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE AND GARDENS: $10,500 · OtherBURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE AND GARDENSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN NC: $10,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN NCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODGIRLS LEADERSHIP OF WILMINGTON ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF WILMINGTON AND NHC: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC: $5,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · Other+3 more: $5,500 · OtherLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISE WELLS CAMERON A…OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,150 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUSE THEATRE CO…CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNCW CORPORATION: $16,000 · EducationUNCW CORPORATIONCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCAPE FEAR COMMUN…Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington: $2,000 · EmploymentFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$107,500Arts & Culture$35,650Education$26,000Community Improvement$10,000Employment$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNCW CORPORATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,150 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Wilmington Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $1,000 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.

Dan Cameron Family Fo…The Landfall Foundati…North Carolina Commun…Jeffrey Schrager & An…The Weil FoundationCorning Incorporated …Duke Energy FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Penny Lima Newhouse F…Stein Family Charitab…Arts Council of Wilmi…William a Stern Found…
Dan Cameron Family Foundation IncNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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