· Private foundation
Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC | $4,000 |
| BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CA INC | $4,000 |
| CLAY COUNTY HEARTS FOR KIDS AND SENIORS | $4,000 |
| LILITH LIDSEEN PERFORM ARTS ASSOC INC | $3,000 |
| SOCIETY ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST WILLIAM CON | $2,500 |
| THE STILL PLACE INC | $2,500 |
| REACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC | $2,500 |
| BRASSTOWN CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC | $1,500 |
| VALLEY RIVER ARTS GUILD INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MURPHY | $1,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CCCHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +13%
- LLLillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
- ROREACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- USUMAR SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -12%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST WILLIAMone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 provide quality affordable rural medical services
Food distribution to the needy
A theater for community theatrical groups, cultural, performance and other cultural or historical activities.
Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.
The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.
Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy
To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
To provide services and resources to individuals and families in crisis.
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
As a non-profit, the black mountain counseling center provides mental health counseling without regard to a client's ability to pay. services are provided by licensed, experienced counselors working with children, adults and families…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Lillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc. 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 32 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 CHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STILL PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RIVER ARTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds One Dozen Who Care Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HEARTS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LOVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY 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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee 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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