· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPENDOOR CHURCH | $200,000 |
| ACES FOR AUTISM | $10,000 |
| MEHERRIN ON MISSION | $10,000 |
| WAYNE PREGNANCY CENTER | $10,000 |
| KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES INC | $7,000 |
| NEW MERCIES TABERNACLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,620 |
| 3HC HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE CARE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- WPWAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +13%
- HHHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2022 · $68k · revenue +61%
- AFACES FOR AUTISM4× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- HMHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +51%
- VLVICTORIOUS LIVINGone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SWSPORT WORKSone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Caring cross is focused upon accelerating the development and implementation of advanced medicines like car-t cell and stem cell gene therapies. in partnership with like-minded stakeholders, caring cross develops and deploys technologies,…
Partnering to instill hope, inspire growth and embrace life.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
We are bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts who have found hope & healing in jesus christ through the process of christ centered recovery, helping others to realize that change is possible.
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
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."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 64 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 WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACES FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ARENDELL PARROTT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTworks Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Violence Prevention ↗
- Who funds HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Meherrin on Mission ↗
- Who funds KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HAVEN AT BLUE CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds The Oakwood School Inc ↗
- Who funds Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Blackwelder Family Foundation 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.