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· Public charity

Carolina Meadows Inc

To enrich and improve the lives of residents and those connected to our community.

$625k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$152kHealth$103kEducation$101kCommunity Improvement$85kInternational$51kPhilanthropy$17kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$9k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $61,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $625,350 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $564,303 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$242M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINA MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC$17,082
RISE AGAINST HUNGER$12,590
CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL$12,000
CHAMBER FOR A GREATER CHAPEL HILL-CARBORRO$10,000
CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC$9,375
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAROLINA MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Carolina Meadows Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 56%.

Carolina Meadows Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 44% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 7 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$444k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+145%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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

  • CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +109%
  • RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +162%
  • CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +145%
  • DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +96%
  • WC
    WEST CHATHAM CARING COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +312%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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3
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.

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4
Community Health Accreditation Program Inc

Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.

Health
5
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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6
Ucc Living Centers Incorporated

To provide affordable housing to senior citizens in chapel hill, nc.

Housing & Shelter
7
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
8
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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9
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

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…

Health
10
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To consistently deliver exceptional quality and service by demonstrating the values of respect, integrity, innovation, fiscal responsibility and accountability. to be an outstanding community healthcare organization, with service as our…

Philanthropy
11
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
12
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham County Council On Aging Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cristo Rey Research Triangle Corporate Work Study Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATHAM COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $99,360 · OtherCHATHAM COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCCHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $86,030 · OtherCHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INCLEADING AGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherLEADING AGE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC: $22,789 · OtherCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC+2 more: $15,000 · OtherRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $75,479 · InternationalRISE AGAINST HUN…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · EducationUNC HEALTH …UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …CAROLINA MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC: $17,082 · Human ServicesCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC: $9,375 · EmploymentDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,422 · Health
Other$368,179International$75,479Education$52,500Human Services$17,082Employment$9,375Health$5,422

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHATHAM COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $99,360 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $86,030 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $75,479 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC: $22,789 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC: $17,082 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC: $9,375 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,422 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEST CHATHAM CARING COMMUNITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Triangle Community Fo…United Way of Chatham…Galloway Ridge IncDuke Energy FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Chatham County · Galloway Ridge Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Carolina Meadows Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolina Meadows Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    2report 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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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