· Public charity
Big Rock Foundation Inc
The organizations primary exempt purpose is raising funds for charities and worthy community projects to promote conservation among sportsfishermen and preserve maritime culture and heritage while promoting marine education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $35,000 |
| CARTERET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CARTERET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $20,000 |
| NC SYMPHONY CARTERET COUNTY | $17,000 |
| NC AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE | $7,500 |
| HOPE MISSION | $7,500 |
| EASTERN CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA | $7,500 |
| EASTER SEALS UCP (THE STATION CLUB ENTERPRISES) | $7,500 |
| MARTHA'S MISSION | $7,500 |
| BROAD STREET CLINIC | $7,500 |
| HISTORY MUSEUM OF CARTERET COUNTY (THE HISTORY PLACE) | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $129k) 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN3× · 2021–2024 · $112k · revenue +54%- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +28%
- CCCARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $289k
- CCCARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $108k · revenue +36% · 25% of their budget
- SEST EGBERT'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $53k
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 united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
It is the purpose of this corporation to preserve, enhance, and protect the cape lookout lighthouse, its history, structures, and the barrier island of core banks on which it is situated in carteret county, north carolina.
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
To preserve and present information about the rich and significant history of the broadcasting industry in the state of north carolina to be universally accessible and useful.
Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Misplaced Mutts. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 30 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carteret County General Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Martha Mission Cupboard Inc ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE DOWNEAST INC ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROBELL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MISPLACED MUTTS ↗
- Who funds CORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SHACKLEFORD HORSES ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
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: Crystal Coast Tournament Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Spotswood Charitable Foundation Inc · Beaufort Wine and Food Weekend Inc · The Wellons Family Foundation · Loomis Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carlyle Adams Foundation · Harris Upchurch 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 Big Rock 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.
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.