· Private foundation
Eaves Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| SANKOFA BIRTH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC | $2,500 |
| REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $2,500 |
| L I F E SKILLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA | $1,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $1,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $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 (FY21–24, $24k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Eaves Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +17%- SBSankofa Birth Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue ×15
- TTTransplanting Traditions Community Farm3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- RFRAIZ FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
- ALAGRARIAN LAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -35%
- TCThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +38%
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.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share and support agriculture resources and skills centered in equity, inclusion and economic viability. Bountiful Cities works collaboratively investing in re-development…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Global Growers Network partners with people from multiple cultures who grow fresh food for their families and local marketplaces, and grows leaders who strengthen our local food system.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
To advance a resilient agriculture system that demonstrates the power to heal our lands, nourish our communities and prepare emerging farmers.
To scale up forest protection and transition to regenerative agriculture by incubating adoption of the Regeneration Hub model. RF fulfills its Mission to catalyze planetary regeneration, empower women & indigenous communities in order to…
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 roa intends to create a path for agricultural producers of food and fiber to introduce and scale the use of regenerative organic practices in their operation in an effort to increase soil health and carbon through soil. also the roa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Sankofa Birth 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 10 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 14% 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.
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 25 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 EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH ↗
- Who funds Sankofa Birth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Transplanting Traditions Community Farm ↗
- Who funds RAIZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGRARIAN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE Skills Foundation ↗
- Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Don't Waste Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds REGENERATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Soccer In the Streets 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: Impactassetsinc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Tides Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer 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 Eaves Family 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.
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.