· Private foundation
Cecile G Ebert Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Carolinas Cavalry Inc | $166,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont | $30,000 |
| Foscoe Home Team | $25,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 |
| Heart of North Cove | $15,000 |
| PIVOTPoint WNC | $15,000 |
| NC Auto Racing Hall of Fame | $11,500 |
| Health Reach Community Clinic | $10,000 |
| Wild South | $10,000 |
| Mooresville Area Christian Mission | $10,000 |
| The College of Wooster | $10,000 |
| Bridge to Recovery Inc | $10,000 |
| Fifth St Ministries | $10,000 |
| Food for Days | $7,500 |
| RADA Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- DIDIAKONOS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +74%
- HCHealthReach Community Clinic8× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +173%
- FFEEDNC6× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +675%
Funded once
- MCMoorseville Christian Missionone grant, 2023 · $35k
- LCLINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +76%
- CFCommunity Foundation of The Floridaone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Operation Next Step | Vet 2 Vet | Welcome Home missions. Please see our website for further information.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The restoration house wnc seeks to provide a holistic approach to restoring life and hope to the outcasts and others in need of healing who come to us for help.
Southeastern carolina crossroads is an organization designed to provide a positive atmosphere and faith based help and hope for men to overcome addiction.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ebenezer Christian Childrens Home and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. 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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 91 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 United Carolinas Cavalry Inc ↗
- Who funds DIAKONOS INC ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds Carolina Comfort Coalition ↗
- Who funds PIVOTPOINT WNC ↗
- Who funds Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Wild South ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson Day School ↗
- Who funds LAKE NORMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds Food For Days ↗
- Who funds Hope of Mooresville Inc ↗
- Who funds DOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR TOWNS OF NORTH MECKLENBURG - IREDELL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Carolina Aviators Network ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dale Jr Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Hope at the Lake Foundation · Cashion Family Foundation Inc · Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation · Giving With Grace Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Darrell and Patricia Steagall Family 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 Cecile G Ebert Charitable 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.