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Eaves Family Foundation at a glance

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Eaves Family Foundation

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$38kFood & Nutrition$32kEducation$19kEnvironment$12kInternational$12kCommunity Improvement$10kEmployment$8kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$20,000
EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH$17,500
L I F E SKILLS FOUNDATION$15,000
TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY$7,500
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC$3,500
SANKOFA BIRTH FOUNDATION INC$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$2,000
PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCORPORATED$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $18k → 11%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $8k → 11%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $7k → 11%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1k → 13%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $5k → 11%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
MN
MA
RI
CA
CO
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Eaves Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Eaves Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 9 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$135k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

78%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 BIRTH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • TT
    Transplanting Traditions Community Farm
    4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +82%
  • SB
    Sankofa Birth Foundation Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue ×43

Funded once

  • AL
    AGRARIAN LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -35%
  • RF
    RAIZ FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • TC
    The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +38%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Development in Gardening

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.

Community Improvement
2
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation

Rafi challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially and ecologically just farm communities.

International
3
Regenerative Organic Alliance

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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5
Trees for the Future Inc

Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.

Environment
6
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
7
Capital Roots Inc

Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…

Environment
8
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
10
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
11
Trees for the Triangle

We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.

Environment
12
The Land Institute

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. by consulting nature as the source and measure of that membership, the land…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $40,000 · Human ServicesEQUITY BEFORE BIRTH+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE…Sankofa Birth Foundation Inc: $17,500 · HealthSankofa Birth Found…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLI…THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $9,000 · OtherTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT …NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK LAWYER LAND LO: $5,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION…OCCANEECHI BAND OF THE SAPONI NATION: $3,000 · OtherOCCANEECHI BAND OF THE SAP…Communities In Partnership: $5,000 · OtherCommunities In PartnershipDon't Waste Durham Inc: $2,500 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $2,500 · Other+4 more: $4,500 · Other+4 moreTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $19,000 · Food & NutritionTransplanting Tra…AGRARIAN LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Food & NutritionAGRARIAN LAND TRU…REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $2,500 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRI…JUBILEE JUSTICE INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionJUBILEE JUSTICE I…TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LAND …RAIZ FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentRAIZ FOUNDATIO…GEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA ORGANI…NATIVE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 · EnvironmentNATIVE CONSERV…LIFE Skills Foundation: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE Skil…The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $7,500 · Employment
Human Services$41,000Health$37,500Other$50,500Food & Nutrition$34,000Environment$26,500Youth Development$17,500Employment$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $19,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE Skills Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSankofa Birth Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGRARIAN LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAIZ FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDon't Waste Durham Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE JUSTICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGENERATION INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincTriangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Tides FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…The Schmidt Family Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncNorth Carolina Commun…Common Counsel Founda…Clif Family FoundationBny Mellon Charitable…The Pfizer Foundation…
ImpactassetsincMD21.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eaves Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eaves Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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