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Chilanta Community Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| BOOKS AND BREAKFAST | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BURKINO FASO | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO BIBLE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $5,000 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP | $5,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL CAROLINAS | $5,000 |
| JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY | $2,500 |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | $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 (FY17–20, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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 — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BABOOKS AND BREAKFAST8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +493%
- CBChicago Bible Society8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +80%
- HOHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES5× · 2018–2023 · $27k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CPCALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CBCharlotte Bilingual Learning Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +221%
- HHHEALING HANDS OF JOY INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
The Nest Academy is a trauma-informed, private K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina with a mission to change the lives of refugee and underprivileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school…
To provide quality half-day and full-day preschool programs for children ages one to five within an enriched Jewish environment. CJP is dedicated to providing young children with a secure and loving atmosphere so that they can develop a…
The mission of ALP is to improve the reading, writing, and spelling skills of young, aspiring readers in under-resourced communities by providing free, long-term, one-on-one instruction from highly trained tutors.
Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.
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.
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
The Nashville Freedom School Partnership(C) uses literacy to instill cultural pride, self-assurance, and active citizenship with a primary focus on children of color.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Burkina Faso Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 BOOKS AND BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS ART MUSEUM DBA NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Chicago Bible Society ↗
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BRAVEWORKS ↗
- Who funds Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds STRIVE ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE QC FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Burkina Faso Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Childcare Network of Evanston ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Northwestern University · Duke Energy Foundation · Cless Family Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Chilanta Community 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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