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Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank at a glance

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Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$133kHuman Services$123kHealth$123kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$49kFood & Nutrition$47kYouth Development$44kArts & Culture$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$1,850
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC: $8k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC: $6k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 21%THE RELATIVES: $11k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $8k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $6k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $6k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $6k → 10%HOPE VIBES: $6k → 10%HOPE VIBES: $700 → 10%HOPE VIBES: $700 → 10%HOPE VIBES: $250 → 10%HOPE VIBES: $100 → 10%Playing for Others: $500 → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $5k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $3k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $700 → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $700 → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $643 → 10%ANSWER SCHOLARSHIP: $428 → 10%ANSWER SCHOLARSHIP: $100 → 10%FOUNDATION FOR GIRLS: $2k → 10%REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES: $6k → 10%REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES: $5k → 10%REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES: $4k → 10%Project 658: $393 → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $6k → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $6k → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $5k → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $5k → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $4k → 10%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$620k · 67 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
42

Total granted

$620k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

57%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CR
    Care Ring Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +76%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    THE RELATIVES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • Davidson College
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -16%
  • GUILFORD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -91%
  • Queens University of Charlotte
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
For Charlotte Inc

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

Religion
3
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Dress for Success Charlotte

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…

Human Services
5
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
6
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

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.

Animals
7
Clt Joules

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.

Civil Rights
8
Charlotte Is Creative

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
10
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

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.

International
11
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
12
Charlotte Pride Inc

Charlotte pride creates programs and activites to enrich, empower, strengthen and make visable the unique lives and experiences of lgbtq people in charlotte.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise a Child of the Carolinas; 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.
04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/79
Grantees still filing
45/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAssist ME: $24,700 · OtherAssist MEPHILLIPS ACADEMY: $23,934 · OtherPHILLIPS ACADEMYWayfinders(FormerlyBruce Irons Camp Fund: $17,857 · OtherWayfinders(FormerlyBruce Irons Camp FundPARKVIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,950 · OtherPARKVIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCWhats Next Ministry: $14,000 · OtherGFWC- NC ENDOWMENT FUND: $13,225 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $12,000 · OtherREACH OUT AND READ: $11,300 · OtherLET ME RUN INC: $14,500 · Other+65 more: $108,995 · Other+65 moreBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $36,620 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF …THE RELATIVES INC: $36,074 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INCCamp Blue Skies Foundation: $28,750 · Human ServicesCamp Blue Skies Founda…REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $15,250 · Human ServicesREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVIC…BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $8,200 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BLESSINGSHOPE VIBES INC: $7,350 · Human Services+8 more: $6,414 · Human ServicesCare Ring Inc: $45,250 · HealthCare Ring IncCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $29,514 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE …Madelyns Fund: $20,950 · HealthMadelyns FundBRAVE STEP INC: $8,700 · HealthBRAVE STEP INC+3 more: $2,728 · HealthCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $26,300 · EducationCLASSROOM CE…Heart Math Tutoring Inc: $12,500 · EducationHeart Math T…AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $11,550 · EducationAUGUSTINE LI…Digi-Bridge: $6,493 · EducationDigi-BridgeDavidson College: $5,000 · EducationDavidson Col…GUILFORD COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationGUILFORD COL…Queens University of Charlotte: $5,000 · EducationQueens Unive…The Learning Collaborative: $4,025 · Education+4 more: $2,000 · EducationUPTOWN FARMERS MARKET: $35,250 · Food & NutritionCharlotte Museum of History: $11,900 · Arts & CultureThe Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte: $8,450 · Arts & CultureJAZZARTS CHARLOTTE: $5,700 · Arts & CultureGirls Rock Charlotte DBA We Rock Charlotte: $2,707 · Arts & CultureCharlotte Choir School: $2,700 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,586 · Arts & CultureTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC: $21,000 · Philanthropy
Other$288,961Human Services$138,658Health$107,142Education$77,868Food & Nutrition$35,250Arts & Culture$33,043Philanthropy$21,000

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 budgetCare Ring Inc: $45,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $36,620 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $36,074 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUPTOWN FARMERS MARKET: $35,250 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $29,514 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Blue Skies Foundation: $28,750 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $26,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC: $21,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMadelyns Fund: $20,950 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLET ME RUN INC: $14,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetWhats Next Ministry: $14,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Museum of History: $11,900 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $11,550 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE LUNCH PROJECT: $9,530 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBRAVE STEP INC: $8,700 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte: $8,450 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $8,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE VIBES INC: $7,350 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetDigi-Bridge: $6,493 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJAZZARTS CHARLOTTE: $5,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDavidson College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative: $4,025 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Culinary School of Charlotte Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Rock Charlotte DBA We Rock Charlotte: $2,707 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCharlotte Choir School: $2,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPromising Pages Inc: $2,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTeal Diva: $2,150 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $2,043 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTreesCharlotte: $2,043 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation For Girls: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCarolina Raptor Center Inc: $1,864 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,793 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL: $1,650 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENVISION CHARLOTTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFields of Hope: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEDS FOR KIDS INC: $1,343 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
  • Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗

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 Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationAlbemarle FoundationWomens Impact FundMerancas Foundation I…Wells Fargo FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…The Leon Levine Found…Truist Foundation IncArts & Science Counci…True Homes Foundation…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC84.1× affinity54 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 · 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

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 Woman's Club First Citizens Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank?

    Find your warmest path to Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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