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Band Together
BAND TOGETHER uses live music as a platform for social change
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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $499k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE | $198,589 |
| EI FUTURO INC | $60,000 |
| HOPE FOR R&T MENTAL ILLNESS | $60,000 |
| NAMI WAKE COUNTY | $60,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND OR | $60,000 |
| SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS INC | $60,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NC | $39,292 |
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 (FY17–20, $502k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue -18%
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE2× · 2019–2020 · $306k · revenue +119%
TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2018–2019 · $173k · revenue -23%
Funded once
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduatedone grant, 2017 · $196k · revenue +52%
- LTLINCOLN THEATREone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
The Mental Health Associates of the Triad is committed to the promotion of good mental health through quality service provision, advocacy for issues affecting individuals and families with mental health issues, and outreach to the…
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
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.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shining Light in Darkness Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds Shining LIGHT IN Darkness Foundatio ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
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: The Re Corr Family Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Rex Hospital Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
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 Band Together 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.