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Ascend Nonprofit Solutions
Ascend Nonprofit Solutions is a Type I Supporting Organization under IRS Code Section 509(a)(3), established to strengthen the nonprofit sector by providing essential infrastructure and operational support.
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 |
|---|---|
| Wayfinders | $26,000 |
| CrossRoads Corp | $26,000 |
| Council For Childrens Rights | $26,000 |
| BeLoved Asheville | $26,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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 unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Eradicating housing inequities for people experiencing homelessness
The organization's mission is: We are guided by our Christian faith to address the impact of poverty and trauma on families with children in Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties. We do this through advocacy, education, empowerment,…
Through the wisdom of lived recovery experience, we ignite social change, inspire hope and serve as a catalyst for personal greatness.
Foster Village Charlotte creates connection with dignity for children and families experiencing foster care by meeting urgent needs, providing educational and emotional support, and advocating as a collective community voice for children.
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
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,…
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.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is The Stream Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds Families Forward Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds BEDS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Corporation for Affordable Housing and Community Development Inc ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds RECEPTIONS FOR RESEARCH THE GREG OLSEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Stream Foundation ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Live Love Serve Foundation · Champions for Education Inc · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
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 Ascend Nonprofit Solutions 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.