· Private foundation
Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k76 grants · $448k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY | $26,000 |
| JOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| REFUGEE SUPPORT CENTER | $12,000 |
| INTER FAITH COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| NOTE IN THE POCKET | $6,000 |
| CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY WARSAW | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BEAMAN HOME | $6,000 |
| JOE'S KIDS INC | $6,000 |
| DR CHARLES VANDER HORST WATER SAFETY INITIATIVE | $6,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF THE TRIANGLE | $6,000 |
| K21 HEALTH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those 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.
79 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- JHJOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +13%
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +392%- RSREFUGEE SUPPORT CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CICWS IMMIGRANT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +71%- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +28%
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.
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 Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
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,…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
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.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
To provide counseling, personal development programs, basic physical needs, transitional assistance, and family support to assure rehabilitation and post-release transition of incarcerated women who have committed to making positive,…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Science Central Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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. 76 of the 109 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 JOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOME ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY SHELTER FOR ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds BAKER YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Christmas House Inc ↗
- Who funds Joe's Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP DURHAM ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Duke University · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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.
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