· Public charity
Bladen We Care Foundation
To provide healthcare or medical devices to indigent patients.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,994 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,994 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLADEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| PAUL R BROWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| BLADEN CRISIS ASSISTANCE | $15,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINA CROSSROADS | $15,000 |
| TOWN OF ELIZABETHTOWN | $10,000 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 24%. 0% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BCBLADEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $70k · revenue +117%
- PRPaul R Brown Leadership Academy Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +6%
- SCSOUTHEASTERN CAROLINA CROSSROADS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- ZBZARA BETTERMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -6% · 99% of their budget
- BBBLADEN BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $11k
- TOTown of Bladenboro2× · 2022–2024 · $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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Created is a private college where theology, culture, and entrepreneurialism become one story.the mission is to provide a transformative, christian based approach to cultivating habits of learning and innovation.
Provides scholarships for beaufort county community college students.
Private Baptist College
To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.
The organization, together with public and private investors, provides affordable housing, housing counseling, education, and community, human, and economic development to improve the quality of life in lee and surrounding counties of nc.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The brightpoint community college foundation acquires vital resources that advance the college's mission to provide superior, affordable, and accessible education. the foundation seeks the time, talent, and financial support of alumni,…
The mission of belmont abbey college is to educate students in the liberal arts and sciences so that in all things, god may be glorified. in this endeavor, we are guided by the catholic intellectual tradition and the benedictine spirit of…
Programs of credit unions which offer a wide variety of personal financial services exclusively to their members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bladen County Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Zara Betterment Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
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.
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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 Bladen We Care 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.
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