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Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fish
Its FY2018 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of BIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION % SARAH FISH’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $170,000 |
| KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS | $55,000 |
| SARAH P DUKE GARDENS | $50,000 |
| CHORALE SOCIETY OF DURHAM | $41,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIE | $35,000 |
| DURHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| DURHAM LITERACY CENTER | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SEEDS | $25,000 |
| DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE | $25,000 |
| -AUGUSTINE PROJECT | $23,000 |
| CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MAKING A DIFFERENCE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +30% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $107k · revenue +63%
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +7%
HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $60k
- VAVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
Operation of a public charter school.
Durham For All's mission is to build a new majority 10,000 people strong -- a multiracial, cross-class progressive movement led by people of color and working-class people. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, and…
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…
Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.
To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Student U and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 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.
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 MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CENTRAL PARK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Partners for Youth Opportunity ↗
- Who funds Latino Educational Achievement Partnership ↗
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 · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Durham Arts Council Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Morgan Creek Foundation · The Stewards Fund · The Forest At Duke 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 Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fish 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.
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