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Childtrust Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $707k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP CORRAL | $250,000 |
| EDUCATION NC | $125,000 |
| REACH OUT AND READ INC | $100,000 |
| NC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| POSITIVE CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE NC | $71,050 |
| AMIR INSTITUTE | $61,000 |
| WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| NC RURAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| STEP UP MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
| LEARNING TOGETHER | $35,000 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANO | $30,000 |
| BREASTFEEDING FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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
CAMP CORRAL8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +10%- PSPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $783k · revenue +374%
REACH OUT AND READ INC9× · 2017–2025 · $723k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COASTALone grant, 2018 · $75k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +43%
- KNKIPP NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -30%
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.
Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…
To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educationnc and the most unlike its peers is Amir Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 86 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 CAMP CORRAL ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
- Who funds NC CHILD ↗
- Who funds Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT LEAD ↗
- Who funds THE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds BERTIE COUNTY YMCA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds AMIR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KIPP NORTH CAROLINA ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · John Rex Endowment · Foundation for the Carolinas · John William Pope Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation 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 Childtrust 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Schools That Lead — 4% 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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