· Private foundation
Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels on Durham Inc | $22,500 |
| Emmanuel Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Senior PharmAssist | $15,000 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Families Moving Forward | $15,000 |
| Durham Rescue Mission | $15,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $12,500 |
| John Avery Boys and Girls Club | $12,000 |
| Durham Striders Youth Association | $12,000 |
| Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center | $10,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $10,000 |
| Animal Protection Society of Durham | $10,000 |
| North Carolina Central University | $5,000 |
| Triangle Comunity Foundation | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 11% of your 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +4%
SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +23%- DSDurham Striders Youth Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +229% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $13k
- TCThresholde Clubhouseone grant, 2020 · $5k
- WPWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
PORCH-Durham works in partnership with a variety of Durham county nonprofit and community based organizations to identify children and families most at risk of hunger. We provide shelf-stable foods from our monthly neighborhood food…
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Stepup partners with adults to transform their lives through training in life and employment skills.
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emanuel Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds Durham Striders Youth Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EMANUEL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Open Table Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · Fox Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke Energy Foundation · Morgan Creek Foundation · Durham Congregations in Action
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 Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trust 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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