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Atrium Health Foundation

In support of atrium health, we:inspire transformational giving to improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing - for all.

$43M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$207MEducation$41MInternational$260kReligion$61kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$12k
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $888k
  • $250k+18 grants · $41M
$168,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$557M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$10,000,000
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$9,466,983
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$6,466,826
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$4,853,543
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$2,328,552
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$1,918,981
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$928,733
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$896,496
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$670,674
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$646,335
CMS FOUNDATION$633,600
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$614,984
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$376,189
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$369,584
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH$345,536
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Centering Healthcare Institute Inc: $5k → 16%FOR THE STRUGGLE: $10k → 10%EMBRACE ALL LATINO VOICES: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
AZ
NC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$245M · 25 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$245M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+29%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $692k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +4%
  • CR
    Care Ring Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +133%
  • BH
    BAYADA HOME HEALTH CARE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $647k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.9M
  • OC
    One Charlotte Health Alliance LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $296k · revenue -100% · 54% of their budget
  • HH
    Hyundai Hope on Wheels
    one grant, 2023 · $102k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation Dba Memory and Movement Charlotte

To impact the lives of individuals living with cognitive impairment and movement disorders as well as those who care for them, to provide patients with specialized medical care through an in-depth assessment of the medical, safety and…

Health
3
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
4
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centering Healthcare Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Enrichment Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsDance Arts OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%16%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr12%44%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,135

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH — $238,124,069 · OtherTHE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH+8 more — $3,344,945 · OtherCare Ring Inc — $1,361,975 · HealthBAYADA HOME HEALTH CARE INC — $647,425 · Health24 Foundation Inc — $605,500 · HealthWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER — $291,000 · HealthThe Isabella Santos Foundation — $123,250 · Health+11 more — $463,639 · HealthWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $2,159,246 · EducationCMS FOUNDATION — $633,600 · Education+4 more — $218,241 · EducationHyundai Hope on Wheels — $101,847 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHendrick Family Foundation — $50,500 · PhilanthropyMeckEd — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTE BALLET — $33,350 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentGreater Enrichment Program Inc — $15,049 · Human ServicesFOR THE STRUGGLE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesEMBRACE ALL LATINO VOICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $5,260 · Human ServicesWorld Affairs Council of Charlotte — $6,000 · International
Other$241,469,014Health$3,492,789Education$3,011,087Philanthropy$272,347Arts & Culture$83,350Youth Development$62,000Human Services$40,309International$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $2,159,246 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCare Ring Inc — $1,361,975 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetBAYADA HOME HEALTH CARE INC — $647,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCMS FOUNDATION — $633,600 over 1y, 24% of budget24 Foundation Inc — $605,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetHeineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc — $421,507 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetOne Charlotte Health Alliance LLC — $296,332 over 1y, 54% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER — $291,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Isabella Santos Foundation — $123,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHyundai Hope on Wheels — $101,847 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $85,741 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCook Community Clinic Inc — $82,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $74,212 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECEPTIONS FOR RESEARCH THE GREG OLSEN FOUNDATION — $68,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $56,427 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHendrick Family Foundation — $50,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $50,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE — $40,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING — $34,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET — $33,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD NEUROLOGY SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMeckEd — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Enrichment Program Inc — $15,049 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOR THE STRUGGLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUNG CANCER INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMBRACE ALL LATINO VOICES — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Charlotte — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $5,260 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Presbyterian Hosp…Duke Energy FoundationAlbemarle FoundationC D Spangler Foundati…The Leon Levine Found…United Way of Greater…Presbyterian Hospital…The Perper Family Fou…Foundation for the Ch…Hendrick Family Found…Philip L Van Every Fo…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC35.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · C D Spangler Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Presbyterian Hospital Foundation · The Perper Family Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Hendrick Family Foundation · Philip L Van Every 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 Atrium Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bayada Home Health Care Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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