· Private foundation
Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC | $25,000 |
| SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLI | $10,000 |
| KELLIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARYING PLACE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $5,000 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $5,000 |
| PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC | $5,000 |
| OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS FLIGHT OF HOPE INC | $2,500 |
| THE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| DESIGNED FOR JOY | $2,500 |
| MABOPANE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- NSNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +172%
THE CARYING PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +337%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF JOY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -21%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +50%- CFCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE Ione grant, 2022 · $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.
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
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…
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Triangle family services fulfills its mission of building a stronger community by strengthening the family through services in the following core program areas: family safety, financial stability, housing security, and mental health.
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
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…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc. 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 26 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 73 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 NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARYING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds Designed For Joy ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Neuroscience Group ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN GREENSBORO DBA MENTAL HEALTH GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WAKE COUNTY GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF JOY INC ↗
- Who funds Mabopane Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KELLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WAKE CRISIS MINISTRY ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Mistler Charitable Trust · Knier Family Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation
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 Calvin and Kelly Carter Family 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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.