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Carlton C & Lynell a Martin Famil

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$252kReligion$155kEducation$155kHealth$17kHousing & Shelter$14kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$2kCivil Rights$400Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NC$50,000
BAPTIST ON MISSION$30,000
SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
MIDWAY DISTRICT BAND BOOSTERS$5,000
MACK D FOUNDATION$5,000
CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK OF SALEMBURG$1,500
MIDWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL$500
MATTHEW 25 CENTER$500
MIDWAY HIGH SCHOOL$500
MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$500
PLAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$500
CLEMENT SCHOOL$500
MISSION DIGNITY$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%MISSION DIGNITY: $400 → 14%MATTHEW 25 CENTER INC: $1k → 11%BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NC: $100k → 13%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY PT PROGRAM: $30k → 13%MACK D FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 18%LAKE CHURCH: $10k → 19%CLEMENT BAPTIST CHURCH: $9k → 20%THE ODOM HOUSE: $2k → 26%MATTHEW 25 CENTER INC: $1k → 11%BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $100k → 13%MACK D FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%LAKE CHURCH: $5k → 19%CLEMENT VOLUNTEER FD: $3k → 20%MATTHEW 25 CENTER INC: $1k → 11%BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NC: $50k → 13%MACK D FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%CLEMENT ELEM SCHOOL: $2k → 20%MATTHEW 25 CENTER: $500 → 11%MACK D FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%CLEMENT SCHOOL: $500 → 20%AGAPE PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 16%SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $25k → 20%AGAPE PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 16%SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $25k → 20%AGAPE PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 16%SAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20k → 20%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 16%SAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 20%SAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 20%SAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 20%BLACKS CHAPEL METHODIST: $30k → 20%ROSEBORO SALEMBURG SCHOOL: $2k → 20%MIDWAY HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 20%MIDWAY HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 20%MIDWAY DISTRICT BAND BOOSTERS: $5k → 20%MIDWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 20%PLAINVIEW ELEM SCHOOL: $2k → 20%MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 20%SPANISH MISSION: $1k → 20%MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $500 → 20%PLAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $500 → 20%MIDWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL: $500 → 20%CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK OF SALEMBURG: $2k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$392k · 14 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$392k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+12%

Still filing today

14%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $150k
  • SC
    SAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k
  • SC
    SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k

Funded once

  • BC
    BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • CU
    CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY PT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NC: $150,000 · OtherBAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME OF NCSAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherSAMPSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGESAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $50,000 · OtherSAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIOMT ZION MISSIONARY BAPTIST: $46,000 · OtherMT ZION MISSIONARY BAPTISTIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBAPTIST ON MISSION: $30,000 · OtherBAPTIST ON MISSIONCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY PT PROGRAM: $30,000 · OtherCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY PT PROGRAMCLEMENT BAPTIST CHURCH: $18,850 · Other+18 more: $81,900 · Other+18 moreBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $100,000 · ReligionBAPTIST CHILDREN'S…THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterChristian Food Bank of Salemburg: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$496,750Religion$100,000Housing & Shelter$3,500Food & Nutrition$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTHEW 25 CENTER: $3,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Christian Food Bank of Salemburg ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carlton C & Lynell a Martin Famil funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carlton C & Lynell a Martin Famil. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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