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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 (continued in sch o)in the charlotte area.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$902kHealth$668kFood & Nutrition$286kCommunity Improvement$185kHuman Services$182kPhilanthropy$135kHousing & Shelter$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $1,140,247 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,256,187 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,940 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,247
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS$500,000
ISRAEL RELIEF FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$100,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$100,000
CARE RING$100,000
THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL$100,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORTS CORPORATION$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CABARRUS COUNTY$15,247
MUGGSY BOGUES FOUNDATION$15,000
VETERANS BRIDGE HOME$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER GREENSBORO TEEN ACHIEVERS$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$10,000
SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITY GALA$10,000
CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $25k → 7%Crisis Assistance Ministry: $25k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $25k → 10%YMCA GREATER CHARLOTTE: $25k → 10%Foundation for Girls: $30k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $10k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES FRIENSHIP TRAYS INC: $31k → 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.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$869k · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$869k
$526k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • OT
    OUT TEACH
    3× · 2018–2020 · $65k · revenue +4%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • VB
    VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • MS
    Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NU
    Nourish Up
    one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -10%
  • FF
    Foundation For Girls
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -43% · 28% of their budget

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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
3
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
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
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
6
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
7
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
8
Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
11
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Charlotte City Market

The market at 7th street is a mission-based nonprofit that combines culinary and retail innovation, economic opportunity, and a sense of belonging. the market: 1) incubates new food and retail businesses, 2) supports economic mobility…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is The Steve Smith Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/52
the rest of the field
13%
5,327/40,649

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

45 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. 45 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/45
Grantees still filing
23/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CMS FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationCMS FOUNDATIONChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $100,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots Fou…OUT TEACH — $65,250 · EducationOUT TEACHUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $30,500 · EducationNest Academy Inc — $26,450 · Education+3 more — $35,000 · EducationPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $489,759 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUN…Care Ring Inc — $100,000 · HealthCare Ring IncAmerican Heart Association Inc — $22,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $260,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $32,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $30,000 · PhilanthropySPEEDWAY CHILD…The Steve Smith Family Foundation — $14,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOO…Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 · OtherMens Shelter of Charlot…VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $36,574 · OtherVETERANS BRIDGE HOME IN…Mecklenburg Food Policy Council — $25,000 · OtherFriendship Trays Inc — $20,000 · OtherANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $26,260 · OtherCAROLINA FARM TRUST INC — $25,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas — $50,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sister…PURPLE HEART HOMES INC — $20,000 · OtherThe Independence Fund Inc — $20,000 · OtherJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc — $27,500 · OtherCommunity Culinary School of Charlotte Inc — $25,000 · Other+11 more — $132,779 · Other+11 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $50,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up — $31,304 · Human ServicesMuggsy Bogues Family Foundation — $30,000 · Human ServicesFoundation For Girls — $30,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry — $25,000 · Human ServicesARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $25,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBoost Pad Inc — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$757,200Health$634,259Philanthropy$336,500Other$558,113Human Services$201,304Arts & Culture$125,000Community Improvement$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCMS FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $489,759 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCare Ring Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUT TEACH — $65,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas — $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $36,574 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up — $31,304 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMuggsy Bogues Family Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFoundation For Girls — $30,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNest Academy Inc — $26,450 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $26,260 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA FARM TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Culinary School of Charlotte Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPURPLE HEART HOMES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc — $15,247 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetE2D Inc E2D Eliminate the Digital Divide — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte — $15,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe Steve Smith Family Foundation — $14,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLONELY ENTREPRENEUR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCharlotte Mecklenburg Police Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoost Pad Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…The Winston-Salem Fou…Merancas Foundation I…Albemarle FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…The Cannon Foundation…Hendrick Family Found…Ally Charitable Found…United Way Worldwide
Foundation for the CarolinasNC52.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Hendrick Family Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide

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 Charlotte Hornets 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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