· Private foundation
Clay Foundation - East
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $50,000 |
| RESOURCES FOR SENIORS | $50,000 |
| OAK CITY CARES | $35,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF WAKE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL EASTERN NC | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| WAKE SMILES | $25,000 |
| FIGS | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCES MEDICAL MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| THE SHEPARD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN | $15,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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 +75% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +100%
CASA8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +117%- RFRESOURCES FOR SENIORS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- GDGOVERNOR'S DISASTER FUNDone grant, 2018 · $25k
- MCMARIAM CLINICone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…
Provide food & shelter for the homeless, offer support to those that desire to develop or enhance their life goals and assist others in the community with financial assistance for emergency household utility needs.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.
We connect, convene, and collaborate to increase access to quality healthcare, advocate for the underserved, and build stronger communities.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
The clinic provides primary healthcare in a spirit of compassion to limited income persons who are without adequate health insurance benefits in warren and vance counties, north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mariam Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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 INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH-WAKE COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OAK CITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAM CLINIC ↗
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 · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Stewards Fund · WakeMed · The Curtis Foundation · Chaucer Charitable 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 Clay Foundation - East 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.