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Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Long Branch Church | $21,100 |
| Campbell University Scholarship | $18,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $15,000 |
| Rise Ministry Network Inc | $15,000 |
| Vineyard Church of New Orleans | $5,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $5,000 |
| Glad Tidings Church | $5,000 |
| Stewart Theater | $4,100 |
| Cape Fear Christian Academy | $2,500 |
| Harnett Regional Theatre | $2,500 |
| The Salvation Army | $2,500 |
| Antioch PFWB Church | $2,500 |
| Dunn Public Library | $1,500 |
| Friends Fighting Cancer | $1,000 |
| Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +87%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +145%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- NCNC COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- DCDirk & Catherine Penning Obesity Researcone grant, 2023 · $4k
- OROAK RIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Habitat for humanity is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on christian principles that seeks to put god's love into action by building homes, communities and hope. habitat for humanity is dedicated to eliminating…
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3)…
To sponsor specific habitat development projects in the northeast georgia area and globally in cooperation with the construction of modest but adequate housing, and to associate with other groups functioning with purposes consistent with…
Seeking to put Gods love into action Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Greater Mount Airy Area Habitat for Humanity…
Habitat for humanity of greater miami (hfhgm) is a christian ministry whose purpose is to build homes and communities in partnership with low-income families within greater miami.
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
Our mission: charlotte county habitat for humanity, a christian housing ministry, is committed to homeownership: by a needs-based partnership with low-income charlotte county residents building safe, affordable, quality homes using…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity york county adheres to…
Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.
Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.
We build and restore homes, lives and communities through faith.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of horry county (hfhhc) brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the vision of the organization is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunn United Ministerial Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Simply Girls Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 41 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HARNETT REGIONAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FIGHTING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY TREE LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds AVERASBORO BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds DUNN AREA HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NOT FORGOTTEN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HARNETT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DUNN UNITED MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLAIN VIEW COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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: The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin 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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