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Blackwelder Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPENDOOR CHURCH$200,000
MEHERRIN ON MISSION$10,000
WAYNE PREGNANCY CENTER$10,000
ACES FOR AUTISM$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC: $25k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $28k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC: $25k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $26k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $14k → 13%BUILDING HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER: $1k → 20%BUILDING HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER: $500 → 20%CENTER FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 20%CENTER FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $3k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 26 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
35

Total granted

$1.3M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

46%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +13%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $68k · revenue +61%
  • AF
    ACES FOR AUTISM
    4× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +261%

Funded once

  • HM
    HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +51%
  • VL
    VICTORIOUS LIVING
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SW
    SPORT WORKS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
Caring Cross Inc

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,…

Health
3
Charlotte Behavioral Health Care Inc

Partnering to instill hope, inspire growth and embrace life.

Health
4
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
5
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
6
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
7
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
8
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
9
Broken Chains

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.

Health
10
Carolina Children's Charity Inc

To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.

Health
11
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
12
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

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."

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPENDOOR CHURCH: $868,500 · OtherOPENDOOR CHURCHDAUGHTERS FOR DADS: $75,671 · OtherDAUGHTERS FOR DADS+43 more: $173,897 · Other+43 moreHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $67,766 · Human ServicesHELPING HA…BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBERT'S BIG…Center for Family Violence Prevention: $16,500 · Human ServicesCenter for…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesWAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $76,000 · HealthWAYNE PREG…ACES FOR AUTISM: $51,550 · HealthACES FOR A…HAVEN AT BLUE CREEK INC: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $2,250 · HealthARENDELL PARROTT ACADEMY INC: $17,520 · EducationHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $16,350 · EducationThe Oakwood School Inc: $4,210 · EducationSPORTworks Ministry Inc: $17,000 · ReligionKRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES: $7,000 · ReligionThird Street Education Center Inc: $2,000 · ReligionMeherrin on Mission: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,118,068Human Services$136,266Health$134,800Education$38,080Religion$26,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Philanthropy$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HAVEN AT BLUE CREEK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds The Oakwood School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗

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 …North Carolina Commun…University Health Sys…The Community Foundat…Bill and Faye Stallin…W Russell and Patrici…WIMCO Charitable Foun…Bill & Agnes Monk Fam…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Equitable Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blackwelder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blackwelder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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