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Durham Congregations in Action
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $49,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,566 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC Poor Peoples Campaign | $20,000 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham | $15,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $7,500 |
| Believers United for Progress | $6,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 44% 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
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +65%
DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +26%- UCURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- NCNEHEMIAH CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $45k
- BFBELL-YEAGER FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $11k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $11k
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 respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
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.
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…
Provide food, shelter and instruction to those individuals and families in need within the community. Promote a pathway to self sufficiency which includes income stabilization and permanent housing.
To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry and community garden programs.
Serving Our Neighbors is dedicated to reducing food insecurity in Davie County by rescuing surplus food from local grocery stores and distributing it directly to individuals and families in need. Through compassion, collaboration, and…
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
To reduce the incidence of hunger and malnutrition in Mecklenburg County by procuring and distributing groceries to people facing economic hardships and to deliver daily meals in a caring and friendly manner to individuals in our community…
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing for New Hope and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds BELIEVERS UNITED FOR PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Walltown Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds FARMER FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN ↗
- Who funds Autism Support and Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds REALITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PORCH-Durham ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds Open Table Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION ↗
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: Duke University · Duke University Health System Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Durham Congregations in Action 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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