· Private foundation
Arnold 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPS TO HOPE | $7,000 |
| THE MARLEY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| UPSTATE COMMUNITY HOSPICE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF TRYON FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING | $4,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| THE CARE RING | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| EVERHART MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 92% 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
- TMTHE MARLEY PROJECT IN9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +13% · 37% of their budget
- STSTEPS TO HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +328%
- CRCare Ring Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- TFTRYON FINE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $4k
- OHOPERATION HOPEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- VHVeterans Healing Farmone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
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 empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
To provide the comforts of home for families of seriously ill loved ones by offering affordable accommodations in the heart of charlotte's medical community.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Create a community where individuals impacted by homelessness, poverty, and unemployment are empowered through our transitional programs and transformed by the love and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Partnering to instill hope, inspire growth and embrace life.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Marley Project in. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 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 THE MARLEY PROJECT IN ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TRYON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Healing Farm ↗
- Who funds Polk County Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE 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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Arnold 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.