· Private foundation
Amador Foundation Inc
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
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS | $7,000 |
| SAILING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY | $5,000 |
| NEW HOPE BIRD ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $5,000 |
| TRIANGLE YOUTH BALLET | $2,500 |
| WILLOW OAK MONTESSORI FOUNDATION IN | $2,500 |
| EL FUTURO | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM ORGANIZING FOR RACIAL EQUIT | $2,000 |
| CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO | $2,000 |
| EL VINCULO HISPANO | $2,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATIN | $500 |
| LEARNING OUTSIDE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WOWILLOW OAK MONTESSORI FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +296%
CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +284%
HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FDTNone grant, 2024 · $7k
- CCCAMP CHESTNUT RIDGE & RETREAT CTRone grant, 2022 · $5k
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +609%
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 research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Operation of a public charter school.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
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.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Vision Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 WILLOW OAK MONTESSORI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA Greensboro ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Second Bloom of Chatham Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Chatham Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURES EDGE ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING OUTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Galloway Ridge Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Amador Foundation Inc 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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