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Chaucer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $7,500 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF RALEIGH | $6,000 |
| RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| RALEIGH RESCUE MISION | $4,000 |
| DORCAS MINISTRIES | $3,750 |
| SAFECHILD | $3,500 |
| CARTERET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| FIRST TEE | $3,000 |
| TRANSITIONS - ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION | $2,500 |
| LINEBERGER CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| TRIANGLE LIGHT THE NIGHT | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +55%
FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +135%
The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BCBETA CHAPTER OF PDT INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -83%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +6%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Partnering to instill hope, inspire growth and embrace life.
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
To empower, connect, and support the lifespan of individuals with down syndrome, their families, and the community through outreach, advocacy, and education in north carolina.
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 105 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 SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ME FINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HORSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM B BROUGHTON CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Curtis Foundation · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc · John R & Carolyn J Maness Family Foundation - C/O Eton Advisors L P
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 Chaucer Charitable Foundation 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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