· Private foundation
Chatham Foundation Inc
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 $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $144,000 |
| GRACE CLINIC | $75,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY | $38,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Children's Center of Surry Inc | $15,000 |
| THE ARK (ECHO MINISTRY) | $10,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ALLEGHANY CARES | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Chatham Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- ECElkin City Schools4× · 2020–2023 · $216k
- GCGRACE CLINIC2× · 2024–2025 · $125k
- WCWilkes County Soil and Water Conservatio2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
Funded once
- PLPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +9%
- AFARLINGTON FIRE & RESCUE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -7%
- HCHUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2020 · $31k · 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.
Food distribution to the needy
To provide emergency medical services to the citizens of Elkton, McGaheysville and Massanutten Village and the surrounding areas of Rockingham County. These services are provided by an all volunteer agency who responded to more than 3,000…
To serve as the organization to administer the United Fund campaign for Yadkin County, and to serve as the charitable conduit through which contributions can be received and dispensed to help support needed services for Yadkin County…
Provide an all volunteer fire protection & emergency services for a section of yancey county, north carolina.
Elk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga…
To provide the best possible fire fighting and rescue services to the citizens of erwin, north carolina.
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
To preserve and protect the yadkin pee dee river basin through education, advocacy, and action.
To provide transportation services to human service agencies and the rural general public in chatham county.
Provide emergency medical services to residents and businesses of township 7 and the surrounding areas of craven county, north carolina
Food bank for the needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri County Christian Crisis Ministr and the most unlike its peers is Friends of East Bend Town Square Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 42 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 ELKIN ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds REEVES DOWNTOWN SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SURRY INC ↗
- Who funds YADKIN VALLEY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds African American Historical and Genealogical Socie ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAST BEND TOWN SQUARE Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTR ↗
- Who funds YOUR FATHERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
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: Boyles-Eidson Family Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Reynolds American Foundation · The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation · The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · Pvh Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Chatham Foundation Inc 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.