· Private foundation
Albemarle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Albemarle Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 80 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Albemarle Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 650 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1318 grants · $1.7M
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $300,000 |
| CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION | $300,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $300,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $300,000 |
| CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION | $300,000 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE INC | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG INC | $100,000 |
| HABITAT CHARLOTTE REGION | $100,000 |
| YBM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $100,000 |
| HEART MATH TUTORING INC | $75,000 |
| FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERS INC | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC | $50,000 |
| E4E RELIEF LLC | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
1102 repeat relationships — 560 still active in FY2023, 542 since wound down; 195 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
- CYCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION5× · 2019–2023 · $2.1M · revenue ×13 · 38% of their budget
- HMHeart Math Tutoring Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +285%
- CFCMS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASCAROLINA YOUTH COALITIONone grant, 2018 · $400k
- CPCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INCone grant, 2017 · $155k · revenue -98%
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION - CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fototazo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1074 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. 1074 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Black Leadership Alliance ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE Charlotte ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE CARE FUND ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CHEERS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds La Porte Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MAGNOLIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELHOUSE 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Presbyterian Hospital · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Leon Levine 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 Albemarle Foundation 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
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.
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