· Private foundation
Carlyle Adams Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $487k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC MUSEUM OF ART | $210,000 |
| WILL & DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $77,000 |
| NC COASTAL FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PINE CONE FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| ARISE COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| HELPING HORSE INC | $25,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| CORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ARTSPLOSURE | $20,000 |
| NC ZOO SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CAMP SEA GULLYMCA OF THE TRIANGLE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY6× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +232%- WAWILL AND DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $237k · revenue +13% · 25% of their budget
- NCNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- UHUNC HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NMNC MUSEUM OF ART - ARTS KIDS INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CSCAMP SEA GULLYNCA OF THE TRIANGLEone grant, 2023 · $15k
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 promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.
To strengthen nc's vibrant theatre industry and engage tomorrow's artist, audiences, and advocates.
Fostering environmental stewardship through education and outreach to perpetuate the natural beauty of north carolina
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Marys School. 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 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILL AND DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSPLOSURE THE RALEIGH ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE CONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HORSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK & ECO-CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Environment Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Bell Cook Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr 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 Carlyle Adams 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary 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.