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David and Nicole Tepper Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+15 grants · $10.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,000,000 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHARMECK FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC | $1,000,000 |
| NOURISH UP | $1,000,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $955,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $860,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK INC | $831,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY | $625,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA INC | $600,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $500,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC | $435,625 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $300,000 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC | $251,873 |
| CMS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 25 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +17%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $967k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS (PANTHERSFC CHARLOTTE)one grant, 2022 · $1.7M
- JCJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -6%
- TUTHE UMBRELLA CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The mission of the york county food bank is to increase dignified access to nutritious food and community resources that enhance food security in york county.
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Steve Smith Family 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.
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 40 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 — 0.0% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 99 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds RECEPTIONS FOR RESEARCH THE GREG OLSEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Steve Smith Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
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 · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc · The Gambrell Foundation · The Tepper Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Feeding America · Truist 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David and Nicole Tepper Charitable 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.
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