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Cline Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.8MEducation$870kHuman Services$102kReligion$82kPhilanthropy$65kArts & Culture$62kRecreation & Sports$56kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $841k
$10,000
Median grant
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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 Endowed Chair$100,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Health Care Innovations$100,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Alzheimer Research Project STOMP-AD$100,000
Appalachian State University Foundation, Inc.$91,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Memory Counseling Program$50,000
Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc$50,000
Me Fine Foundation$35,000
Eye Tumor Research Foundation Inc$35,000
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Geriatric House Call Program$30,000
Duke University Health System Inc$25,000
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc.$25,000
Villanova University$25,000
Green Beret Foundation$20,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$868k · 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

$868k
$1.7M

Still filing today

0%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • AH
    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (Center for Health Care Innovations)
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CC
    CAROLINA'S CHAPTER OF CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES/IBD PATIENTS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
How this is measured

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

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $2,502,250 · Other+116 moreCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $40,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $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 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentOneWorld Health: $30,000 · InternationalUNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $20,000 · Animals
Other$3,072,250Health$117,000Education$50,000Environment$45,000International$30,000Philanthropy$30,000Animals$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOneWorld Health: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Catholic High School Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILKES SENIOR RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY ANGELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds OneWorld Health ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Catholic High School Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
04Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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