· Private foundation
Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of CAROLYN RIDDLE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVING TUESDAY | $73,000 |
| FTCC FOUNDATION | $4,100 |
| LOUISBURG COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| FAYETTEVILL ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| OPERATION IN AS MUCH | $2,000 |
| OFF ROAD OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| ALMA EASOM ELEMENTARY PTO | $2,000 |
| WELLS MCRAE CAIN MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,075 |
| TERRY SANFORD HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MILLERS CREW | $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 (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FAFAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%
- TATHE ARTS COUNCIL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +100%
- CFCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN3× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SMSNYDER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SFSANDHILLS FAMILY HERITAGE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -20%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
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…
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…
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
To promote both small business and personal growth, productiveness and well being through loans, peer counseling, education, information, and other advocacy programs throughout cumberland county, north carolina.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stoney Point Fire Dept Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 65 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 CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Operation Inasmuch Inc ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILLERS CREW INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vision Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Off-Road Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS FAMILY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOME BUILDERS ASSOC OF FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Riddle Family Foundation · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Youth Growth Stock Trust · Robert E Bryan Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Jw & Db Wyatt 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 Riddle Armstrong 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.
- Capital City Youth Services Inc — 20% 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.