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Charlotte Wine & Food Weekend Inc

To raise money for charitable organizations in Charlotte.

$402k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHuman Services$509kHealth$135kCivil Rights$110kArts & Culture$90kCrime & Legal$70kRecreation & Sports$40kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Augustine Literacy Project$105,000
GenOne$100,000
Thompson Child & Family Focus$100,000
The Learning Collaborative$95,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE RELATIVES: $50k → 10%The Relatives: $40k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $20k → 10%The Relatives: $55k → 10%The Relatives: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 10 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$83k

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GI
    Gen-One Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +381%
  • TL
    The Learning Collaborative
    5× · 2020–2024 · $353k · revenue +45%
  • AL
    Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte
    3× · 2022–2024 · $334k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • PP
    Pats Place CAC
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • MF
    Mitchells Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • LR
    LINVILLE RIDGE EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
2
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
3
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc

Providing access to superior speech-language and hearing services that empower and transform lives.

Health
4
Onslow County Partnership for Children

When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.

Education
5
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
6
Black Child Development Institute-Carolinas

"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."

Education
7
Families First in Cabarrus County

To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…

Human Services
8
Teen Health Connection Inc

To improve the health of adolescents by providing adolescent medicine and behavioral health services, education, advocacy, leadership development and research through connections among adolescents, parents, and the community.

Health
9
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
10
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
11
Nest Academy Inc

The Nest Academy is a trauma-informed, private K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina with a mission to change the lives of refugee and underprivileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school…

Education
12
The Childrens House

To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Relatives Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Concerts. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Learning Collaborative: $352,930 · EducationThe Learning CollaborativeAugustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $333,625 · EducationAugustine Literacy Project - Charlott…THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $323,625 · OtherTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS IN…Council for Childrens Rights Inc: $110,000 · OtherCouncil for Childrens Rights IncCharlotte Concerts: $90,000 · OtherCharlotte ConcertsPats Place CAC: $40,000 · OtherPats Place CACMitchells Fund: $40,000 · OtherMitchells Fund+2 more: $3,100 · OtherGen-One Inc: $417,050 · Youth DevelopmentGen-One IncPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $70,000 · HealthPats Place …NOVANT HEALTH INC: $70,000 · HealthNOVANT HEAL…MITCHELL'S HOUSE INC: $64,750 · HealthMITCHELL'S …THE RELATIVES INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELAT…
Education$686,555Other$606,725Youth Development$417,050Health$204,750Human Services$185,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGen-One Inc: $417,050 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative: $352,930 over 5y, 11% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $333,625 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $323,625 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $185,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCharlotte Concerts: $90,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $70,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL'S HOUSE INC: $64,750 over 2y, 32% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Gen-One Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Concerts ↗
  • Who funds Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ↗
  • Who funds NOVANT HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds MITCHELL'S HOUSE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC22.8× affinity9 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 · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Merancas Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Duke Endowment · Tulsa Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charlotte Wine & Food Weekend Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte Wine & Food Weekend Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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