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CHARLOTTE REGION CHAPTER OF SIM
The Chapter strives to strengthen professional communications among members who direct the application of information technology in private and pubic organizations (through meetings and education, networking, and philanthropy).
$118k
Granted FY2024
20
Grants
3
Communities
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Education$72kHuman Services$40kEmployment$13kCommunity Improvement$13kArts & Culture$3kOther$86k
02FY2024 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNC CHARLOTTE$22,500
- INNOVATE TECH CHARLOTTE$11,500
- DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION$10,500
- QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE$8,500
- YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$8,000
- DIGIBRIDGE$6,500
- INTECH FOUNDATIONS$6,000
- PHILLIP O BERRY CMS SCHOOLS$6,000
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES SO PIEDMONT$5,500
- PROJECT SCIENTIST$4,500
- APP YOUNIVERSITY$3,750
- E2D$3,750
- YOUNG ENGINEERS CHARLOTTE LATIN$3,500
- GASTON INNOVATION GROUP$3,500
- WINTHROP UNIVERISTY$3,500
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$213k · 18 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
2
Total granted
$213k
$13k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+83%
+124%
Still filing today
78%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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
- UCUNC CHARLOTTE2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +172%
- DRDOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +396%
- QCQUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +530%
Funded once
- ITINNOVATE TECH CHARLOTTEone grant, 2024 · $12k
- GIGIRLS IN STEMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +124%
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.
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Girls in Stem
Human Services
2
Digital Girl Incorporated
Digital Girl, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Brooklyn, NY. DGI is dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of our communities, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology,…
Education
3
Stem Skool Inc
Founded in 2017 by engineer-turned-educator Dr. GeAndra Imoudu, STEM Skool, Inc. is a Charlotte, NC-based non-profit organization that aims to increase interest, proficiency, and diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math to…
Education
4
ChickTech
ChickTech is dedicated to advancing diversity in science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM)by increasing retention and building the pipeline of underrepresented technologists with a focus on women, girls, and non-binary people of all…
Human Services
5
Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated(see Sch O) to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical expertise…
Science & Tech
6
Women in Technology Inc
Empowering girls and women to excel in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) from the classroom to the boardroom.
Education
7
Project Invent
Project Invent empowers students with the 21st-century skills to succeed individually and impact globally, through invention for social good.
Science & Tech
8
STEMatch Inc
Education
9
MakerSpace Charlotte
Encourage technological creativity and community by enabling people to use tools, to learn by making things and to share knowledge.
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10
The School for Global Thinkers
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
Education
11
The Center for Inquiry-Based Learning Inc
Enhance STEM science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning in K-8 schools around North Carolina.
Youth Development
12
Georgia Youth Science and Tech Cent
Promote interest and enthusiasm in science and the technologies, particularly among elementary and middle school teachers and youth in the state of georgia
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Scientist Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnson C Smith University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$86,250Education$71,750Human Services$40,000Employment$12,500Community Improvement$12,500Arts & Culture$3,000
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 UNC CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES SO PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds DIGIBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds INTECH FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SCIENTIST ↗
- Who funds E2D ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ENGINEERS CHARLOTTE LATIN ↗
- Who funds GASTON INNOVATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY STEM ↗
- Who funds APPARRO ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN STEM ↗
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 CarolinasNC27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Arts & Science Council · Charities Aid Foundation America · The LendingTree Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation CHARLOTTE REGION CHAPTER OF SIM 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INTECH FOUNDATIONS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813166863 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on INTECH FOUNDATIONS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Charlotte Region Chapter of Sim?
Find your warmest path to Charlotte Region Chapter of Sim through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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