· Private foundation
Charles a Cannon Trust No 1
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $914k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+19 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY | $6,233,802 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $932,500 |
| ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $560,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC | $550,000 |
| ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $485,993 |
| THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY | $479,732 |
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCORPORATED | $410,048 |
| BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION | $400,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY OF CABARRUS COUNTY | $388,550 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CABARRUS COUNTY INC | $350,000 |
| LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| BARTON COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC | $290,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% 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.
145 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 20 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.7M 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
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +17%
- BCBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +40%
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- LRLENOIR- RHYNE COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $350k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCESone grant, 2024 · $249k
- MAMCGILL AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $125k
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.
Support Haywood Community College
The north carolina community colleges foundation, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to support the mission of the nc community college system.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.
Vance-Granville Community College Foundation, Inc., purpose is to receive contributions and to use such contributions to provide funds to Vance-Granville Community College to be used to acquire or purchase real or personal property, to pay…
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
Manchester community college foundation advances the academic, economic, and personal growth of diverse populations by finding sources of funding which will be used to assist the college in achieving its mission and goals.
The Northampton Community College Foundation, raises, invests and manages private resources for Northampton Community College, it's students, and it's staff.
The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.
The purpose of the northeast community college foundation is to assist northeast community college in furthering its educational goals and objectives, and to provide financial support to northeast students, enabling them to afford tuition…
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Carolina Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cabarrus Healthcare Foundation. 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 52 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc ↗
- Who funds Mayland Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Community College 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: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Patriot Foundation · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Wcnc Cannon Charitable Trust · Margaret C Woodson 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 Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 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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