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Cline Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$1.8MEducation$870kHuman Services$102kReligion$82kPhilanthropy$65kArts & Culture$62kRecreation & Sports$56kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $841k
$10,000
Median grant
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc.$200,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Alzheimer's Research$150,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Alzheimer Research Project STOMP-AD$100,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Health Care Innovations$100,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Endowed Chair$100,000
Appalachian State University Foundation, Inc.$91,000
Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc$50,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Memory Counseling Program$50,000
Eye Tumor Research Foundation Inc$35,000
Me Fine Foundation$35,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Geriatric House Call Program$30,000
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc.$25,000
Villanova University$25,000
Duke University Health System Inc$25,000
Woodberry Forest School$20,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$853k · 22 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
98

Total granted

$853k
$1.7M

Still filing today

0%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CC
    Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc.
    2× · 2023–2024 · $295k
  • MF
    Me Fine Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
  • ET
    Eye Tumor Research Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k

Funded once

  • AH
    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (RBK Center)
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • CC
    CAROLINA'S CHAPTER OF CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES/IBD PATIENTS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY - BUSINESS SCHOOL PLEDGE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

3
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
4
Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health
5
Conway Hospital Foundation Inc

The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…

Health
6
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Heart of Florida United Way Inc

The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.

Philanthropy
9
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
11
Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health
12
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Catholic High School Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Charter and Independent Sch…Senior Support ServicesChildhood Cancer SupportCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Veteran Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsCommunity Hospital SystemsPregnancy Support CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Outreach Ministri…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr12%36%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr12%45%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,153

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.

03the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 136 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc. — $295,000 · OtherCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc.Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Alzheimer's Research — $150,000 · OtherAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (RBK Center) — $125,000 · Other+116 more — $2,477,250 · Other+116 moreCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE — $40,000 · HealthPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY — $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthCharlotte Catholic High School Foundation — $25,000 · EducationST DAVID'S SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC — $5,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentOneWorld Health — $30,000 · InternationalCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $20,000 · Animals
Other$3,047,250Health$117,000Education$50,000Environment$45,000International$30,000Philanthropy$30,000Animals$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE — $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOneWorld Health — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCharlotte Catholic High School Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY ANGELS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES SENIOR RESOURCES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLANTFEW INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilkes Pregnancy Care Center Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE
  • Who funds OneWorld Health
  • Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds Charlotte Catholic High School Foundation

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Lb Lane Family Foundation Inc · George Foundation Inc · Tsh Charitable Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Baird 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cline Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cline Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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