· Private foundation
Associated Foundation Incorporated
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 |
|---|---|
| Belmont Abbey College | $8,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $6,500 |
| Wildacres Retreat | $2,500 |
| Charlotte Symphony | $2,500 |
| Spoleto | $2,500 |
| South Point High School | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Charlotte Master Chorale | $1,500 |
| Mountain Island Charter School | $500 |
| Gaston Hospice | $500 |
| Gaston Arts Council | $500 |
| Catherine House | $500 |
| Gaston School of the Arts | $500 |
| Belmont Community Organization | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +93% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 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; $15k 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
- WRWILDACRES RETREAT7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +93%
- BABELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC2× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +35%
- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC5× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $19k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON CTYone grant, 2017 · $18k
- COCITY OF BELMONTone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
(1) to bring together singers and audiences who share a common interest in high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions; (2) to establish and maintain…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
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.
Operation of a public charter school.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildacres Retreat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 42 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 GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDACRES RETREAT ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Repertory Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GASTON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: Gaston Community Foundation · The Howe Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · United Way of Gaston County Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Associated Foundation Incorporated 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.