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Champions for Education Inc

The organization was organized exclusively for raising funds so that it may provide grants to other charities which strive to improve the quality of education around the nation.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.9MRecreation & Sports$2.4MHealth$2.2MScience & Tech$1.0MReligion$837kHuman Services$762kPhilanthropy$620kFood & Nutrition$509kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+11 grants · $3.0M
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANNA FOOD BANK$400,000
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY$300,000
ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY$300,000
CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION$250,000
FIRST TEE$250,000
WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$250,000
CHARLOTTE SPORTS FOUNDATION$250,000
YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$250,000
CMS FOUNDATION$250,000
ELIMINATE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE (E2D)$250,000
LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$250,000
ALLEGRO FOUNDATION$150,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - CHARLOTTE CHAPTER$100,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - CHARLOTTE$50,000
HEART MATH TUTORING$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK CLT: $25k → 15%FAMILIES4FAMILIES: $30k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $250k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $75k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $50k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $30k → 10%THE RELATIVES CHARLOTTE NC: $6k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $17k → 10%Beds for Kids: $14k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $55 → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $60k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - CHARLOTTE: $50k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $50k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 36 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
64

Total granted

$6.5M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+4%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +195%
  • CF
    CMS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $867k · revenue +26%
  • YG
    Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas
    6× · 2018–2025 · $810k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • DP
    DISCOVERY PLACE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE
    one grant, 2022 · $349k · revenue +10%
  • DP
    DreamKey Partners Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
2
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
4
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
5
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
6
Charlotte Works

Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…

Employment
7
Capital Area Soccer League Inc

The mission of north carolina fc youth (ncfcy) is to provide positive and high-quality instructional and competitive youth soccer opportunities at all levels of play that enhance character, community and the love of the game for a diverse…

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8
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
9
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
10
Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc

Through the investment of time, talents, and treasure, the charlotte hornets foundation will support, promote, and enhance important community efforts that enrich the quality of life for those in need, especially children and youth…

Philanthropy
11
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
12
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avon Products Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development ServicesCancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Military Veterans SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/118
the rest of the field
15%
7,955/53,062

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.

04the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/97
Grantees still filing
64/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CMS FOUNDATION — $867,033 · EducationCMS FOUNDATIONCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION — $546,000 · EducationCAROLINA YOUTH COALITIONTeach for America Inc — $464,602 · EducationTeach for America IncE2D Inc E2D Eliminate the Digital Divide — $250,000 · EducationE2D Inc E2D Eliminate the D…Heart Math Tutoring Inc — $170,500 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring IncAllegro Foundation Inc — $150,000 · EducationThe Quail Hollow Employee Betterment Fund — $98,640 · Education+13 more — $351,798 · Education+13 moreYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas — $810,182 · Recreation & SportsYouth Golf Foundatio…WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOLF FOUNDATIO…THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE — $349,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GRE…Charlotte Sports Foundation — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsCharlotte Sports Fou…Greater Wilmington Youth Initiative Inc — $137,073 · Recreation & SportsGreater Wilmington Y…COMPETITIVE CHAMPIONS OF THE CAROLINAS — $100,617 · Recreation & Sports+5 more — $125,251 · Recreation & Sports+5 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,655,602 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOU…+8 more — $175,100 · Health+8 moreASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $300,000 · OtherASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COMM…WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $250,000 · OtherWEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN C…FOREST HILL CHURCH — $114,100 · OtherMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $400,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD BANK INCDreamKey Partners Inc — $300,000 · OtherDreamKey Partners Inc+49 more — $1,169,598 · Other+49 moreDISCOVERY PLACE INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY PL…NATIONAL LINKS TRUST — $262,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL LIN…FUSION COMP CREW — $50,525 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $53,700 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $405,250 · Human ServicesRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc — $112,451 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK — $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesBEDS FOR KIDS INC — $31,455 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FOR FAMILIES — $30,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $264,000 · PhilanthropyDICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION — $35,595 · Philanthropy+1 more — $8,193 · Philanthropy
Education$2,898,573Recreation & Sports$2,172,123Health$1,830,702Other$2,533,698Arts & Culture$1,366,725Human Services$719,656Philanthropy$607,788

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,655,602 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCMS FOUNDATION — $867,033 over 7y, 16% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas — $810,182 over 6y, 10% of budgetCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION — $546,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $464,602 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $405,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $400,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE — $349,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC — $300,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDreamKey Partners Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $264,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LINKS TRUST — $262,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCharlotte Sports Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $170,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAllegro Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc — $112,451 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPETITIVE CHAMPIONS OF THE CAROLINAS — $100,617 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThe Quail Hollow Employee Betterment Fund — $98,640 over 1y, 59% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Charlotte — $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPromising Pages Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTH IREDELL HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC — $60,080 over 2y, 22% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $51,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUSION COMP CREW — $50,525 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetYoung Black Leadership Alliance — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $45,892 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASTER'S COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL NETWORK — $39,149 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCORPSMEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $37,200 over 1y, 21% of budgetDICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION — $35,595 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDS FOR KIDS INC — $31,455 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILIES FOR FAMILIES — $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe House DC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSevaTruck Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetAVON PRODUCTS FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSalute to Military Golf Association Inc — $26,600 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetROLLING THUNDER — $26,517 over 3y, 30% of budgetLINKS TO FREEDOM — $25,700 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $25,079 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Foundation for the Ca…Albemarle FoundationDuke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Brighthouse Financial…Pga Tour IncMerancas Foundation I…The Presbyterian Hosp…Ally Charitable Found…Speedway Children's C…Equitable Foundation …
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC41.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Brighthouse Financial Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ally Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Equitable Foundation Inc

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 Champions for Education 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Families for Families — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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