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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.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$113kEducation$102kRecreation & Sports$77kArts & Culture$51kHealth$46kInternational$21kHuman Services$13kMembership Benefit$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Long Branch Church$21,100
Campbell University Scholarship$18,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$15,000
Rise Ministry Network Inc$15,000
Glad Tidings Church$5,000
Vineyard Church of New Orleans$5,000
Samaritans Purse$5,000
Stewart Theater$4,100
The Salvation Army$2,500
Antioch PFWB Church$2,500
Harnett Regional Theatre$2,500
Cape Fear Christian Academy$2,500
Dunn Public Library$1,500
Friends Fighting Cancer$1,000
Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department: $1k → 20%Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department: $1k → 20%Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department: $800 → 20%Bay Tree Lakes Volunteer Fire Department: $500 → 20%BAY TREE LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $400 → 20%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$414k · 27 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$414k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+6%

Still filing today

41%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +87%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +145%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • NC
    NC COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • DC
    Dirk & Catherine Penning Obesity Researc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • OR
    OAK RIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Fayettville Area Habitat for Humanity

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Dorchester Habitat for Humanity Inc

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)…

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3
Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Georgia Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Habitat for Humanity International Inc

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…

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5
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Charlotte County Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Habitat for Humanity York County Maine

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…

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9
Faith Christian Ministries of Nash County

Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.

Religion
10
Habitat for Humanity of Effingham County Inc

Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.

—
11
Staunton-Augusta-Waynesboro Habitat for Humanity Inc

We build and restore homes, lives and communities through faith.

—
12
Habitat for Humanity of Horry County Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunn United Ministerial Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Campbell University Scholarship: $83,000 · OtherCampbell University ScholarshipLong Branch Church: $39,650 · OtherLong Branch ChurchStewart Theater: $37,600 · OtherStewart TheaterMercy Vineyard Church: $24,000 · OtherMercy Vineyard ChurchRISE MINISTRY NETWORK INC: $15,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army: $13,000 · OtherALPHIN CEMETERY PRESERVATION INC: $12,000 · OtherGLAD TIDINGS CHURCH: $11,000 · Other+21 more: $56,625 · Other+21 moreFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRIS…+1 more: $300 · Youth DevelopmentUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $21,000 · ReligionHARNETT REGIONAL THEATRE INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureAVERASBORO BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION: $2,650 · Arts & CultureDUNN AREA HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $2,600 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesBAY TREE LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,700 · Human ServicesPROJECT NOT FORGOTTEN INC: $1,200 · Public BenefitDUNN UNITED MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$291,875Youth Development$75,300Education$30,000Religion$21,000Arts & Culture$14,050Human Services$9,200Public Benefit$1,200Food & Nutrition$300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARNETT REGIONAL THEATRE INC: $8,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $5,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBAY TREE LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,700 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVERASBORO BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION: $2,650 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDUNN AREA HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT NOT FORGOTTEN INC: $1,200 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HARNETT COUNTY: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUNN UNITED MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLAIN VIEW COMMUNITY COALITION: $300 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAIN VIEW COMMUNITY COALITION ↗

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.

The Cannon Foundation IncNC13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Alphin Family Foundation CO Ernest J Alphin through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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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