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Blumenthal Foundation for Charity Religion Education & Better Inter-
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $557k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wildacres Retreat | $306,500 |
| Jewish Federation of Charlotte | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $25,000 |
| Queens University | $25,000 |
| Wildlands Network | $25,000 |
| The Stan Greenspon Center | $20,000 |
| Charlotte Ballet | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NC Conservation Network | $15,000 |
| The Wilderness Society | $12,500 |
| Journalism Funding Partners | $10,000 |
| Higher Education Works | $10,000 |
| Sustain Charlotte | $10,000 |
| NC Sustainable Energy Association | $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 (FY20–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 27 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- WRWILDACRES RETREAT5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +93% · 52% of their budget
- UJUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $460k · revenue +67%
- WEWild Earth Society Incorporated5× · 2020–2024 · $121k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CMCharlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundone grant, 2020 · $100k
- JFJewish Federation of Greater Charone grant, 2023 · $51k
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -35%
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.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
NCLCVF engages people to protect our environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We work to turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities first and worst…
CLT Joules is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working with utilities, industry, municipalities, universities and R&D institutions to identify, advise, connect and deploy cleantech startups with Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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 — 1% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 123 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 WILDACRES RETREAT ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sustain Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DOING MY PART INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds Southwings Inc ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Dowd Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Southminster Inc · Womens Impact Fund
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 Blumenthal Foundation for Charity Religion Education & Better Inter- 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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