· Private foundation
Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $617k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $471k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALEM ACADEMY & COLLEGE | $225,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $70,000 |
| THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL | $51,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC | $49,500 |
| UNC INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $47,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $36,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES | $35,000 |
| PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| TRIANGLE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $30,000 |
| CAMP ALBEMARLE | $28,000 |
| SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND | $25,000 |
| JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $25,000 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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.
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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +30%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +52%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TNTCU NEELEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- OMOBERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +22%
- TMTHE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -48%
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is State Employees Credit Union Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK & ECO-CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds MY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North State Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio 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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