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Blackwelder Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 26
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$31M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Blackwelder Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$240k29%
FY202314$339k57%
FY202212$292k42%
FY202119$151k42%
FY202017$62k24%
FY201926$253k81%
FY201815$129kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MHealth$196kHuman Services$123kEducation$51kYouth Development$36kRecreation & Sports$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wayne Pregnancy Care Center Inc$76,00023%
Daughters for Dads$75,6713n/a
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$67,76630%
Aces for Autism$51,55041%
Bert's Big Adventure Inc$50,00022%
Raising Young Men$23,5004n/a
Arendell Parrott Academy Inc$17,52030%
SPORTworks Ministry Inc$17,00022%
Center for Family Violence Prevention$16,50031%
Hargrave Military Academy$16,35010%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Blackwelder Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wayne Pregnancy Care Center Inc$76,00023%
Daughters for Dads$75,6713n/a
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$67,76630%
Aces for Autism$51,55041%
Bert's Big Adventure Inc$50,00022%
Raising Young Men$23,5004n/a
Arendell Parrott Academy Inc$17,52030%
SPORTworks Ministry Inc$17,00022%
Center for Family Violence Prevention$16,50031%
Hargrave Military Academy$16,35010%
Meherrin on Mission$10,00011%
Kristi Overton Johnson Ministries$7,00011%
Every Nation Churches & Ministries$6,3003n/a
Greenville Community Christian Church Incorporated$6,0001n/a
Haven at Blue Creek Inc$5,00021%
Bethany Fellowship Inc$5,0001n/a
Children's Miracle Network$5,00010%
The Oakwood School Inc$4,21020%
Third Street Education Center Inc$2,00010%
Pretty in Pink Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Building Hope Community Life Center Inc$2,00030%
Heart for Enc$1,50021%
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,00010%
Compassion International Incorporated$6841n/a
Team Georgia Inc$50013%
First Born Community Development Center$50010%
Daughters of Worth$50010%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$30010%
CaringBridge$25010%
Autism Society of North Carolina Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($992k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blackwelder Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWayne Pregnancy Care Center Inc: $76,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $67,766 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAces for Autism: $51,550 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBert's Big Adventure Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetArendell Parrott Academy Inc: $17,520 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTworks Ministry Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCenter for Family Violence Prevention: $16,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHargrave Military Academy: $16,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMeherrin on Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKristi Overton Johnson Ministries: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHaven at Blue Creek Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oakwood School Inc: $4,210 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThird Street Education Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPretty in Pink Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHeart for Enc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Georgia Inc: $500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFirst Born Community Development Center: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDaughters of Worth: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Society of North Carolina Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation IncNC32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc · Bill and Faye Stallings Family Foundation · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · WIMCO Charitable Foundation Inc · Bill & Agnes Monk Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Blackwelder Family Foundation

How much does Blackwelder Family Foundation give?
Blackwelder Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $239,620 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Blackwelder Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (69%), Health (13%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Blackwelder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Wayne Pregnancy Care Center Inc ($76k), Daughters for Dads ($76k), Helping Hands Ministries Inc ($68k).
Does Blackwelder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blackwelder Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Blackwelder Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc.
Where is Blackwelder Family Foundation based?
Blackwelder Family Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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