· Private foundation
C L Robbins Tuw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k42 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $65,449 |
| CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $36,361 |
| ALDERSGATE UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT C | $29,089 |
| CENTRAL ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $29,089 |
| LENOIR KIWANIS CLUB CHARITY FUND | $14,544 |
| PIEDMONT COUNCIL BS FBO CALDWELL | $11,635 |
| GS CAROLINAS PEAK TO PIEDMONT | $11,635 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI OF LENOIR DIOCESE | $11,635 |
| BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC | $11,635 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $2,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $2,500 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $408k
- CMCALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +56%
- CACENTRAL ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $181k
Funded once
- KIKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $14k
- ASAPPALACHIAN ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CCCALDWELL COM COL AND TECH INST FBOone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The purpose of methodist university is to provide an undergraduate and graduate education firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition, that nurtures moral values & ethical decision-making; to provide distinctive professional & graduate…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenoir-Rhyne University and the most unlike its peers is Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 122 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.
Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Gaston Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 L Robbins Tuw 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.