· Private foundation
Alexander Worth McAlister Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| NCCJ OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION SURRY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| EDEN YMCA | $10,000 |
| ROYAL EXPRESSIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
| BARRY L JOYCE LOCAL CANCER SUPPORT FUND | $7,500 |
| THE BARNABAS NETWORK | $7,500 |
| CAREGIVERS OF MOTHER EARTH | $5,000 |
| HEROES HELPING HEROES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TBTHE BARNABAS NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +61%
- TBTHE BARRY L JOYCE CANCER SUPPORT FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +528%
Davidson College8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TMTHE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -44%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $8k
- TCTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS - FAMILY SERVICES CENTERone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
The mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
To help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community based response
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet. 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 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BARRY L JOYCE CANCER SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MOUNT AIRY MINISTRY OF HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet ↗
- Who funds Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds PEACEHAVEN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary House Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Jalloh's Upright Home Services of NC 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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Reynolds American 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 Alexander Worth McAlister 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.
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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