· Public charity
Cherokee Preservation Foundation Inc
To protect and preserve our native culture.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $979k
- $250k+8 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EBCI DIVISION OF COMMERCE | $948,440 |
| THE SEQUOYAH FUND INC | $632,330 |
| CHEROKEE BOYS CLUB | $528,000 |
| CHEROKEE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $418,395 |
| EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS | $362,500 |
| CHEROKEE BOYS CLUB | $315,295 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN | $291,000 |
| CHEROKEE BOYS CLUB | $280,830 |
| WESTERN NC REGIONAL EDUCATION | $171,007 |
| CHEROKEE BOYS CLUB | $159,500 |
| CHEROKEE BOYS CLUB | $149,835 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $135,089 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WNC | $114,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $101,055 |
| SNOWBIRD CHEROKEE TRADITION CORP | $78,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- TSTHE SEQUOYAH FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +480% · 52% of their budget
- CHCHEROKEE HISTORICAL ASSOICIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +24% · 89% of their budget
- MOMuseum of the Cherokee People8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA2× · 2020–2021 · $67k
- TOTRAIL OF TEARS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $52k
- BCBRENT CREEK INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $41k
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.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Blue ridge rc&d works with partners to conserve natural resources, foster environmental stewardship, and support sustainable community development in northwest north carolina.
Preserving, interpreting, and developing the heritage resources of the North Carolina mountains.
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
To conserve, protect, and promote the outstanding natural beauty and ecological vitality of the Cherokee National Forest for current and future generations through strong partnerships with the Cherokee National Forest, volunteers, donors,…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
To promote permanent conservation of the natural resources and scenic beauty of the mountains and foothills of north georgia through land protection, collaborative partnerships and education.
Conservation and development of natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cherokee Preservation Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freshwaters Illustrated 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 THE SEQUOYAH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HISTORICAL ASSOICIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of the Cherokee People ↗
- Who funds Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL ↗
- Who funds SNOWBIRD CHEROKEE TRADITIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE TALENTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds NIKWASI INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE INDIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM REVITALIZATION ECONOMIC ACTION TEAM - GREAT ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center For Native Health Inc ↗
- Who funds BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATERS ILLUSTRATED INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · Wnc Bridge Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Nantahala Health Foundation · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment 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 Cherokee Preservation 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.
- Trail of Tears Association Inc — 59% of income from government
- Freshwaters Illustrated Inc — 11% of income from government
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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