· Private foundation
Dhs Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF WILMINGTON | $27,750 |
| MASONBOROORG | $4,000 |
| ST JAMES PARISH | $3,000 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GOOD SHEPARD CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE HARRELSON CENTER | $1,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE | $1,000 |
| NEW HANOVER OUTREACH CLINIC | $1,000 |
| WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM INC | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SE NC | $1,000 |
| NOURISH NC | $1,000 |
| CAPE FEAR ACADEMY | $500 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CFCape Fear Academy6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +60%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +380%
- THThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- NANC AQUARIUM SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $8k
- FOFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Operation of a public charter school.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
Operation of a North Carolina public charter school
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Operation of a public charter school.
Operation of a public charter school.
Cape Fear Montessori Village operates the Island Montessori Charter School, a K-8 public charter elementary school committed to enabling children to learn and grow at their own pace by offering a developmentally appropriate and challenging…
Operation of a public charter school.
To surround at risk students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masonboroorg. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds MASONBOROORG ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds The Hill School of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wrightsville Beach Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Bruce Barclay Cameron Foundation Inc · The Rudisill Family Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Dhs Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965 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.