· Private foundation
Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACH OUT AND READ | $10,600 |
| AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT | $10,500 |
| UPTOWN FARMERS MARKET | $10,000 |
| THEATRE CHARLOTTE | $8,450 |
| THE RELATIVES | $8,000 |
| Heart Math Tutoring | $7,500 |
| Thompson Child & Family Focus | $7,500 |
| CAMP BLUE SKIES | $5,850 |
| Assist ME | $5,700 |
| HOPE VIBES | $5,600 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL | $5,600 |
| CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION | $5,250 |
| Florence Crittenton Services Inc | $5,000 |
| MADELYNS FUND | $5,000 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | $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 (FY20–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CRCare Ring Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +76%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%
- TRTHE RELATIVES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- PGPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -39%
Queens University of Charlotteone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%- RBR Bruce Irons Camp Fundone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
A womens advancement center, the mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to thrive in work and in life. Programs and…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
CLT Joules is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working with utilities, industry, municipalities, universities and R&D institutions to identify, advise, connect and deploy cleantech startups with Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park.
Charlotte Is Creative develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and remake it with creativity into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social and creative…
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
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.
Charlotte pride creates programs and activites to enrich, empower, strengthen and make visable the unique lives and experiences of lgbtq people in charlotte.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise a Child of the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Time Out Youth Inc. 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 19 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 119 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 Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Camp Blue Skies Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Madelyns Fund ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds LET ME RUN INC ↗
- Who funds Whats Next Ministry ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Museum of History ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds THE LUNCH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BRAVE STEP INC ↗
- Who funds The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VIBES INC ↗
- Who funds Digi-Bridge ↗
- Who funds JAZZARTS CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Merancas Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · True Homes 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 Woman's Club First Citizens Bank 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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