· Private foundation
Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $30,000 |
| WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY & SCHOLARSHIP | $15,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA | $12,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE | $10,000 |
| LINVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| LEIGHTON FORD MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
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, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MMMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +107%
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +195%
- CCCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $181k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UMURBAN MINISTRY CENTER - CLOSE TO HOME CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $17k
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CACrisis Assistance Ministriesone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
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.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Southminster Foundation Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 80 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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds DALTONS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOPE & LOVE MENTORING ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · George W & Ruth R Baxter Foundation Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Presbyterian Hospital · Albemarle 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 Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc 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.
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% 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.