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· Public charity

Fftc Partners for Empowering Communities

To carry out grant-making and related programs to foster economic development opportunities and greater social and economic mobility for low income and minority communities in the greater charlotte metropolitan area.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$16MEmployment$20k
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 104 grants below total $5,645,739, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,761,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $115,761 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $4.4M
$48,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCSASSY LLC$150,000
TOP SHELF INSTALLATIONS LLC$150,000
DAILY VIEW POOLS LLC$150,000
ORIGINAL CHICKEN & RIBS$150,000
BYRAMS HOMECARE INC$150,000
REBRAND COLLECTIVE LLC$150,000
MY LITTLE HELPER & CO LLC$149,990
LOYD VISUALS$137,000
MOOR CLOTHINGS & ALTERATIONS LLC$108,500
TAYLOR INTERIORS LLC$100,000
RODRIGUEZ SUPERMARKET INC$100,000
A MOTHER'S DREAM CDC INC$100,000
GILMORE MORTUARY SERVICES$100,000
DEX ENTERPRISES LLC$99,701
ROUNDTREE COMPANIES LLC$98,070
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEX ENTERPRISES LLC: $100k → 16%DEX ENTERPRISES LLC: $100k → 16%UNCLE T'S FOOD GROUP LLC DBA QUEEN CITY CHEESESTEAKS: $98k → 7%PIEDMONT PENNIES: $150k → 10%PARAGON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC: $150k → 10%MCSASSY LLC: $150k → 10%GORTIN GROUP LLC: $150k → 10%#THESAVAGEWAY LLC: $116k → 10%LOCKSTAR LLC: $140k → 10%MCSASSY LLC: $101k → 10%CONNECT SYSTEMS INC: $100k → 10%ALL4ONEHAIR LLC: $97k → 10%ROUNDTREE COMPANIES LLC: $98k → 10%MILES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LLC: $97k → 10%ROUNDTREE COMPANIES LLC: $94k → 10%BLACK PEARL VISION LLC: $97k → 10%DAILY VIEW POOLS LLC: $150k → 10%FM AUTO SERVICE INC: $276k → 10%REBRAND COLLECTIVE LLC: $150k → 10%IT TAKES A VILLAGE CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER LLC: $120k → 10%SAIGON NIGHT: $100k → 10%PETTY THIEVES BREWING CO: $98k → 10%CHRIST CENTERED COMMUNITY COUNSELING PLLC: $157k → 10%ORIGINAL CHICKEN & RIBS: $150k → 10%TOP SHELF INSTALLATIONS LLC: $150k → 10%LOYD VISUALS: $137k → 10%GOLDEN CLEANING SERVICE LLC: $100k → 10%TAYLOR INTERIORS LLC: $100k → 10%RICHARDS SON CONCRETE PUMPING LLC: $93k → 10%CHIC SALON AND SPA INC: $100k → 10%C&O TRANSPORTATION LLC: $200k → 10%BLACK WEDNESDAY SOCIAL LLC: $200k → 10%ARCHIVE CLT: $140k → 10%POWELL ENTERPRISES OF CHARLOTTE INC: $131k → 10%YOUNG EXPLORERS ENRICHMENT CENTER LLC: $100k → 10%EXCELL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING INC: $100k → 10%BYRAMS HOMECARE INC: $150k → 10%MOOR CLOTHINGS & ALTERATIONS LLC: $109k → 10%GILMORE MORTUARY SERVICES: $100k → 10%FULLER INVESTMENT GROUP LLC: $125k → 10%MANOLOS BAKERY INC: $105k → 10%RODRIGUEZ SUPERMARKET INC: $100k → 10%MANOLOS BAKERY INC: $95k → 10%MCNICHOLS AUTO GROUP LLC: $225k → 10%MY LITTLE HELPER & CO LLC: $150k → 10%MY LITTLE HELPER & CO LLC: $134k → 10%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100k → 10%A MOTHER'S DREAM CDC INC: $100k → 10%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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 35 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
194

Total granted

$3.9M
$8.0M

Still filing today

0%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • ML
    MY LITTLE HELPER & CO LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $284k
  • ML
    MCSASSY LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $251k
  • #L
    #THESAVAGEWAY LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $208k

Funded once

  • FA
    FM AUTO SERVICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $276k
  • MA
    MCNICHOLS AUTO GROUP LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $225k
  • BW
    BLACK WEDNESDAY SOCIAL LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 298 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+196 more: $13,818,032 · Other+196 moreHISTORIC WEST END PARTNERS INC: $54,000 · Community ImprovementLATIN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF CHARLOTTE: $26,860 · Community ImprovementDO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAspire Community Capital: $42,550 · Education
Other$13,818,032Community Improvement$80,860Youth Development$50,000Education$42,550

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISTORIC WEST END PARTNERS INC: $54,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetDO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAspire Community Capital: $42,550 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF CHARLOTTE: $26,860 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Cccp Community TrustJunction Business Ser…Arts Sciences & Cultu…United Way of Greater…Local Initiatives Sup…Foundation for the Ca…
Cccp Community TrustNC24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cccp Community Trust · Junction Business Services Inc · Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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 Fftc Partners for Empowering Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fftc Partners for Empowering Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fftc Partners for Empowering Communities?

    Find your warmest path to Fftc Partners for Empowering Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 298 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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