· Private foundation
Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc
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: 91% of Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc’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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
- $250k+1 grant · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $850,000 |
| Lower Cape Fear Life Care | $77,500 |
| Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilm In | $76,250 |
| Harrelson Center Help Hub | $30,000 |
| Eden Village of Wilmington | $20,000 |
| Therapeutic Musicians of Coastal | $20,000 |
| StepUp Wilmington | $20,000 |
| Cameron Art Museum | $11,500 |
| St James Parish | $1,250 |
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, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +27%
- YOYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +55%
- PEPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- LPLakeside Partners of Wilmington Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +53%
- EIELDERHAUS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +58%
- PEPhoenix Employment Ministries of Wione grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…
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…
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…
To serve the entire community by acting as a catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Elizabeth City and the waterfront while preserving its historical and architectural character.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear, Inc (CCLCF) serves as a health and social care hub, working in partnership with community organizations to improve health outcomes for Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured and privately insured individuals…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Eden Village of Wilmington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lakeside Partners of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDERHAUS INC ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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: New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · Loweth-Alvord 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 Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc 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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