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Cm Herndon Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| TROSA | $15,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NC VETERINARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| CARING HOUSE | $10,000 |
| DURHAM RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| THRESHOLD | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $10,000 |
| PHARMASSIST | $10,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE | $5,000 |
| WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +49%- TRTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +5%
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
Established in 1983, Urban Ministries of Durham provides case management to end people's homelessness, offer emergency shelter, free meals, groceries, clothing, referral to needed resources, workforce and life skills training, and…
To provide access to stable, affordable housing for people who are homeless or at risk by developing and managing rental communities.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
Triangle family services fulfills its mission of building a stronger community by strengthening the family through services in the following core program areas: family safety, financial stability, housing security, and mental health.
L'arche north carolina cultivates inclusive communities where people across the spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability identities live and flourish together.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
Drueding center has become a tangible expression of holy redeemer health system's commitment to families and an embodiment of its mission: to care, comfort, and heal. drueding center partners with our families to build the skills to heal…
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
To provide food and shelter for the homeless
Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing for New Hope and the most unlike its peers is Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Barnes Family Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cm Herndon 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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