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Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$134kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$50kFood & Nutrition$46kReligion$42kHuman Services$24kRecreation & Sports$23kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$14,836
ANSON COUNTY PARNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$14,400
ANSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
FEED MY LAMBS INC$7,500
ANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$7,000
ANSON ATHLETIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION$5,000
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
UPTOWN WADESBORO INC$2,500
ANSON COUNTY 4-H$1,000
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 (FY20–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%FEED MY LAMBS INC: $14k → 22%FEED MY LAMBS INC: $8k → 22%ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY: $8k → 22%ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY: $8k → 22%FEED MY LAMBS INC: $8k → 22%ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY: $8k → 22%FEED MY LAMBS INC: $8k → 22%FEED MY LAMBS INC: $6k → 22%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 18 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$430k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+11%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AC
    ANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +44%
  • AC
    ANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $29k · revenue +6%
  • AC
    ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • EC
    EASTVIEW CEMETERY TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • EC
    EASTVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Anson Economic Development Corporation

To promote economic development in anson county, north carolina

Community Improvement
2
Friends of the Anson County Animal Shelter

Dedicated to supporting the anson county animal shelter as well as providing resources and implementing programs to benefit the lives of animals in anson county

Animals
3
Anson County Cattlemen's Associatio

Education regarding beef production

Food & Nutrition
4
Ansonborough Housing Corporation

To build, manage, and supervise senior citizen housing facilities and provide any and all related services.

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5
Union-Anson County Habitat for Huma

To provide affordable housing for low income families.

Housing & Shelter
6
East Howellsville Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Avon Park Cemetary Association

Cemetery sales and maintenance

—
8
Anson Domestic Violence Coalition Inc

Helping victims of domestic violence

Human Services
9
Carolina Animal Protection Society

Animal protection

Animals
10
Robeson County Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Inc

Promote agriculture and industry.

Food & Nutrition
11
Person County Museum of History Inc

To promote and preserve documentation of the history of person county, north carolina

Arts & Culture
12
Anson Meals on Wheels Inc

Provide food to seniors

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anson County Arts Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Uptown Wadesboro Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANSON COUNTY BD OF EDUCATION: $55,014 · OtherANSON COUNTY BD OF EDUCATIONANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $49,000 · OtherANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INCANSON CTY PART FOR CHILDREN: $43,200 · OtherANSON CTY PART FOR CHILDRENFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $41,836 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHANSON CTY HIST SOCIETY: $36,000 · OtherANSON CTY HIST SOCIETYANSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherANSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 · Other+8 more: $34,250 · Other+8 moreFEED MY LAMBS INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY LAMBS IN…ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY: $24,000 · Human ServicesANSON CRISIS MIN…ANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $28,800 · EducationANSON COUNTY HOMES OF HOPE: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterANSON ATHLETIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION I INC: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsUPTOWN WADESBORO INC: $11,000 · Community ImprovementEASTVIEW CEMETERY TRUST: $10,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$303,800Human Services$67,000Education$28,800Housing & Shelter$18,000Recreation & Sports$13,000Community Improvement$11,000Membership Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $49,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS INC: $43,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $28,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetANSON CRISIS MINISTRY: $24,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetANSON COUNTY HOMES OF HOPE: $18,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetANSON ATHLETIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION I INC: $13,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUPTOWN WADESBORO INC: $11,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds ANSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
  • Who funds ANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ANSON COUNTY HOMES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ANSON ATHLETIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION I INC ↗
  • Who funds ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UPTOWN WADESBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTVIEW CEMETERY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗

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.

Yost Elizabeth B Tr U…James R and Bronnie L…Smith Gen Wa Tr Uw - …United Way of Greater…The Cannon Foundation…Duke Energy FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Yost Elizabeth B Tr UwoFL24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yost Elizabeth B Tr Uwo · James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee · Smith Gen Wa Tr Uw - Item Xxii · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 23 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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