· Private foundation
C D Spangler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+21 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000,000 |
| FFTC - CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,000,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION - MS & NEUROINFLAMMATION CENTER | $5,000,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $1,000,000 |
| CHARLOTTE BALLET - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $1,000,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| ARTS - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $1,000,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $500,000 |
| CHARLOTTE BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $500,000 |
| CASE METHOD INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & DEMOCRACY | $500,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $285,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $275,000 |
| THE MAYO CLINIC | $250,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA CHARLOTTE - TRIAD | $250,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $825k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $15M · revenue +8%- CSCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +89%
- DSDarlington School Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10M · revenue +79%
- FFFoundation for the Carolinas - C.D. Spangler Fundone grant, 2020 · $9.0M
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue -47%
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
The triangle charter educational association is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the association is comprised of respected leaders within the state of north carolina who are committed…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
Operation of a public charter school.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps and the most unlike its peers is Mayes County Hope Coalition. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 351 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Sullenberger Aviation Museum ↗
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 · Albemarle Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Merancas 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 C D Spangler 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.
- Mayes County Hope Coalition — 45% of income from government
- Rogers State University Foundation — 20% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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