· Public charity
Chatham PTA Thrift Shop Inc
Raise funds for schools
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k18 grants · $489k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL PTA | $59,687 |
| SEAFORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $36,296 |
| CHATHAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PTA | $33,077 |
| BENNETT SCHOOL PTA | $32,037 |
| JS WATERS PTA | $31,746 |
| HORTON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $30,330 |
| JORDAN MATTHEWS PTA | $29,557 |
| PITTSBORO PRIMARY SCHOOL PTA | $29,463 |
| VIRGINIA CROSS ELEMENTARY PTA | $28,949 |
| SILER CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $28,245 |
| SILK HOPE PTA | $28,228 |
| CHATHAM MIDDLE PTA | $27,332 |
| MARGARET B POLLARD MIDDLE SCHOOL | $27,295 |
| BONLEE SCHOOL PTA | $26,632 |
| PERRY HARRISON PTA | $25,360 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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.
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
- BSBENNETT SCHOOL PTA9× · 2017–2025 · $499k · revenue +7% · 89% of their budget
- PNPTA North Carolina Congress9× · 2017–2025 · $229k · revenue +60% · 68% of their budget
- PCPTA CONGRESS OF NC NORTH CHATHAM9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +38% · 74% of their budget
Funded once
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.
The purpose of PTA is to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. We are a nonprofit organization comprised of parents and staff working together to enrich the…
Enhance student learning experience and enrich the lives of students and teachers within the school
Benefit local school
Educational
The overall purpose of PTA is to make every childs potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children
To support teachers, staff, academic departments, student recognition. Funds raised are also used for ground, facility, and technology needs.
The overall purpose of PTA is to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
Support curriculum and student activity
To support students, teachers and staff
Support Educational Supplies and Programs
Elementary Parent Teacher Association
Parent Teacher Association - Funds for school and children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pta North Carolina Congress and the most unlike its peers is Bennett School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 BENNETT SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds PTA North Carolina Congress ↗
- Who funds SILK HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds J S WATERS PTSA ↗
- Who funds SILER CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds PTA North Carolina Congress ↗
- Who funds PTA North Carolina Congress ↗
- Who funds PTA CONGRESS OF NC NORTH CHATHAM ↗
- Who funds Pittsboro Elementary School PTA ↗
- Who funds Chatham Grove Elementary School PTA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 PTA Thrift Shop 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.