· Public charity
Durham Sports Commission
The DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION's mission is to create economic and social impact by leading the community's efforts to attract, support, and promote youth, amateur, collegiate, and professional sporting and recreational events.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGIT BALLAZZ 7V7 FOOTBALL INC | $15,000 |
| SHAW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DURHAM STRIDERS YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| TRIANGLE ULTIMATE | $6,470 |
| BULL CITY EXPRESS TRACK CLUB | $5,750 |
| MBP HELPING HANDS INC | $4,200 |
| HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN NCTC | $3,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SENIOR GAMES INC | $3,000 |
| HOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB INC | $3,000 |
| FORGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| 1ST AND GOAL 365 LLC | $2,500 |
| FISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 17 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- DSDurham Striders Youth Association Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
- BCBull City Express Track Club6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +64%
NORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $45k
- CBCAROLINA BOWLone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
- DCDURHAM CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAUone grant, 2018 · $19k
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.
Promote and improve athletics in north carolina's public schools and to foster high standards of ethics and sportsmanship.
Further enhance tournament town reputation and build an organization with the ability to develop strategic partners to better position greensboro for the execution of major sports events.
Dedication to the growth of volleyball in raleigh/durham.
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
Triad United Rowing Association is a 501(C)3 nonprofit corporation with a mission of providing local area youth and adults with recreational and competitive rowing opportunities and related water activities such as boating safety, while…
To create and maintain a clean, safe, healthy sport, which may be enjoyed by kids ages 5 through 16
Positively impact people for life by creating intentional experiences through sport.
The durham sports commission's mission is to create economic and social impact by leading the community's efforts to attract, support, and promote youth, amateur, collegiate, and professional sporting and recreational events.
To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 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.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 Durham Striders Youth Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bull City Express Track Club ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BOWL ↗
- Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds FISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CROASDAILE COUNTRY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE CHAMPIONS TRACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MBP HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SENIOR GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE HOMESTEAD EDUCATION AND HISTORY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAMCARES INC ↗
- Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds Durham Parks Foundation ↗
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 · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Durham Sports Commission 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.