· Private foundation
Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELWYN AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $3,025 |
| NOURISH UP | $2,000 |
| CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| BASKERVILL FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHLT | $1,000 |
| THE GO JEN GO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE LITCHFIELD BEACH NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
- HSHumane Society of Charlotte Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%
- NUNourish Up9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +278%
Funded once
- SASelyn Avenue Presbuterian Churchone grant, 2017 · $17k
- CLCAMP LUCK INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +8%
- SASelwyn Ave Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Sustain Charlotte's mission is to create a more equitable, connected, and healthy community by inspiring responsible growth and transportation choices.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southminster Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 83 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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds Go Jen Go Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Trays Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Center of Charlotte ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Gaston Community 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 Ann F & John W Copeland 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.