· Private foundation
Blackwell Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Place at the Table | $1,000 |
| Lake Lure Recovery Fund | $1,000 |
| RHI Legacy Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Transitions Life Care | $500 |
| Arise Collective | $500 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor | $500 |
| Greater Raleigh Cleanup | $500 |
| Step Up Ministry | $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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +89% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SMSTEPUP MINISTRY7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +55%
- PAPRISON ALLIANCE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
HEALING TRANSITIONS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- JAJOSEPH A VAUGHN PLAZA (FURMAN UNIVERSITY)one grant, 2020 · $1k
- FOFoundation of Hopeone grant, 2023 · $1k
- AGACTIVATE GOOD INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -3%
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.
Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To tackle the accelerating crisis of climate change by working to transition nc to clean, efficient energy & by watch-dogging utility practices. we pursue this work through grassroots activism, technical analysis, legal challenges and…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
To facilitate health and recovery for persons affected by alcoholism and other drug addiction through a comprehensive array of services, including residential and outpatient treatment, therapeutic daycare, parenting, detoxification, and…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arise Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhi Legacy Foundation Inc. 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 30 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) — 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 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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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 STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMHERE ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds RHI LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds OAK CITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds OVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds District C ↗
- Who funds Great Raleigh Cleanup ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Lake Lure Flowering Bridge ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Bob Barker Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Nancy a Wright 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 Blackwell Family 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.