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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).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| INNOVATE TECH CHARLOTTE | $9,500 |
| DIGIBRIDGE | $9,500 |
| DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE | $9,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $4,800 |
| WINTHROP UNIVERISTY | $3,000 |
| PHILLIP O BERRY CMS SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| YOU CAN TECH | $3,000 |
| APPARRO | $3,000 |
| APP YOUNIVERSITY | $1,600 |
| GIRLS IN STEM | $1,600 |
| E2D | $1,600 |
| YOUNG ENGINEERS CHARLOTTE LATIN | $1,600 |
| GASTON INNOVATION GROUP | $1,600 |
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 (FY23–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +158%
- DDigi-Bridge3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +26%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS IN STEMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +36%
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.
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…
Through a combination of stem enrichment, digital inclusion, and summer learning programs, the stem alliance advances equal opportunity in education. our evidence-based model has 5 differentiating factors.high quality: our hands-on,…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Empowering underserved students with access to advanced technology and dynamic educational STEAM Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics programs and competitions to develop critical skills for the future.
youth educational and enrichment programs for girls
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…
STEM Gems is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building a stronger, more inclusive STEM pipeline by empowering girls and young women of all backgrounds to explore, pursue, and excel in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).…
Encourage technological creativity and community by enabling people to use tools, to learn by making things and to share knowledge.
Technology Playground is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth in Washington, DC, by equipping them with the tools, knowledge, and experiences necessary to break the cycle of poverty. The organization addresses economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Scientist Inc and the most unlike its peers is E2D Inc E2D Eliminate the Digital Divide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Dottie Rose Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Digi-Bridge ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Scientist Inc ↗
- Who funds Intech Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds E2D Inc E2D Eliminate the Digital Divide ↗
- Who funds Gaston Innovation Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds APPARO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Brighthouse Financial Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Albemarle Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The LendingTree Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Pwc 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 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.
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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