· Public charity
CAHEC Foundation
Provide programs which improve the quality of life for residents in low income communities with an emphasis on youth and young adults
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $185,425 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $203,471 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,046 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAHMA | $45,000 |
| Squared Away Response | $30,425 |
| Inter-Faith Food Shuttle | $30,000 |
| YMCA of Western North Carolina | $15,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank - NW NC | $15,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Louisville | $10,000 |
| Humanities Foundation | $10,000 |
| YMCA of the Triangle Area Inc | $10,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Charlotte | $7,500 |
| YMCA of Greater Richmond | $7,500 |
| Food Bank of Central Eastern North carolina | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- NANATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +12%
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE4× · 2021–2024 · $118k · revenue +44%
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- HUHELPING UP MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +12%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -4%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +1%
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.
To put christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
We are committed to building the foundations of community. we seek to understand and address community needs in order to effect lasting personal and social change in our three areas of focus: youth development, healthy living, and social…
The YMCA of Southeastern NC (YMCA of SENC)is an inclusive non-profit association committed to putting Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Our staff and volunteers work…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice though programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greensboro is a volunteer-led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages,…
Strengthening communities is the y's cause through programs and services focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
Ymca southcoast's mission is the improvement of the spiritual, mental, social, educational and physical conditions of all persons.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities. the ymca encourages growth for youth development,…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Squared Away Response. 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 44 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 30 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 NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Squared Away Response ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Assoc of Columbia SC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRADY PONCE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BANKERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Humanities Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC 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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 CAHEC 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.
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% 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.