· Private foundation
Carolyn and Clifton Alphin 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG BRANCH CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY | $16,500 |
| RISE MINISTRY NETWORK | $15,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,500 |
| OLD BLUFF CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| BEACON RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SAMARITIANS PURSE | $1,000 |
| ANTIOCH PFWB CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FALCONS CHILDRENS HOME | $1,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY - DIRK AND CATHERINE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DUNN EMERGENCY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +54%
- BCBETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC3× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +5%
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
- NHNC HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MBMACK BROWN FOOTBALL CAMPone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Our mission is to meet, through the power of jesus christ, the spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational needs of the whole person so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society. the…
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To minister the good news of christianity to individuals caught in the crisis of hopelessness, poverty or chemical addictions by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and vocational needs.
The overall purpose of this ministry is to carry out the great commission found in matthew 28:19-20, through broadcasting and cybercasting of the gospel of jesus christ and through the dissemination of christian literature. the word…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Non-denominational church with the mission of impacting the city of raleigh, durham and the triangle region of north carolina with the gospel of jesus christ, raising up leaders and ministering to the poor of our city.
Trucc exists to render loving service toward humanity with jesus as our example. we preach love, teach compassion, and social justice, and welcome all into the full life and ministry of the church. we believe god is still speaking today…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunn United Ministerial Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 43 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds DUNN EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DUNN UNITED MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION 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 · Amazonsmile 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 Carolyn and Clifton Alphin 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.
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.
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