· Private foundation
Charles and Melanie Winton Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Claflin University | $115,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $100,000 |
| Christian Brothers University | $55,000 |
| St John Baptist Church | $25,000 |
| Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute | $20,000 |
| Classroom Central | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Gaston Christian School | $12,500 |
| Talladega College | $6,000 |
| Shallow Ford Foundation | $5,000 |
| Southminster Church | $5,000 |
| Brookstone Schools | $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 (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- CUCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $335k · revenue -23%
- HCHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue -2%
- ASALFRED STREET BAPTIST CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $200k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2023 · $153k
- TDTHE DIAMOND EFFECT INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $126k
- CFCMS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +161%
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 college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shallow Ford Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Express Ministries. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 42 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 CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Express Ministries ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds SHALLOW FORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTFULLANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds Broken Wings Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GardHouse Limited ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 and Melanie Winton 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.
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