· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY - DIRK AND CATHERINE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAMARITIANS PURSE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FALCONS CHILDRENS HOME | $1,000 |
| CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM | $1,000 |
| DUNN EMERGENCY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ANTIOCH PFWB CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DUNN EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DUNN UNITED MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carolyn and Clifton Alphin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn and Clifton Alphin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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