· Private foundation
Ernest a Koury Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k13 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC MARINE & ESTUARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NC STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WESTERN ALAMANCE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $20,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| BURLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE BURLINGTON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PET ADOPTION & WELFARE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CHRISTMAS CHEER OF ALAMANCE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| SHALLOW FORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ALAMANCE COUNTY SILENT WITNESS PROGRAM CRIMESTOPPERS | $3,500 |
| RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES | $2,500 |
| ALAMANCE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $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 (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- NCNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +643%
- TBTHE BURLINGTON SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +82%
Elon University8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CCCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +85%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +96%
- NSNC STATE COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The purpose of the school is to organize and operate a school which will provide a standard of scholastic excellence serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.
To promote the general welfare of the life science industry and to enhance its contributions to the public welfare.
To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Alamance community school is committed to helping students become engaged citizens by finding meaning in learning through exploring real-world problems and creating innovative and exciting solutions.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Northpoint christian academy is a private school located in waxhaw, nc. ncas activities will consist of providing kindergarten through 12th grade education in a christ-centered environment.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
To promote and represent agribusiness in north carolina.
The community development corporation will create equitable and accessible whole-person solutions for every resident of north carolina through community collaboration and investment made possible by the community development corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cone Health Philanthropic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BURLINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTMAS CHEER AGENCY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY C/O MARY GLASGOW ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALAMANCE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RALPH SCOTT LIFESERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Alamance Community College 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: Vicky and Sam Hunt Foundation · Smith Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Maurice J Koury Foundation Inc · Alamance Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Ernest a Koury Family Foundation Inc 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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