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Filotimo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$592k
Granted FY2025still arriving
322
Grants FY2025still arriving
34
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it funds
017% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$108kHuman Services$35kCivil Rights$22kYouth Development$6kEducation$5kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$3kPublic Benefit$40Other$0
02FY2025 · 322 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k309 grants · $296k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $296k
$500
Median grant
34
States reached
$829k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$49,036
Individual grant recipient$45,011
GIFT OF ADOPTION$35,000
Individual grant recipient$33,159
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$25,396
RESOLVE NIGHT OF HOPE SPONSORSHIP$20,000
Individual grant recipient$19,435
Individual grant recipient$14,058
Individual grant recipient$12,287
Individual grant recipient$11,676
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE$10,660
Individual grant recipient$10,495
FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY COLLABORATIVE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,457
Individual grant recipient$9,340
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MARY CLOUD: $9k → 11%ASHLYNN SHEPHERD: $6k → 17%ANDREW JAMES: $7k → 13%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $11k → 14%KRISTINE REINHARDT: $9k → 9%LETSROCKCFORG: $5k → 21%KIMBERLY SELLERS: $5k → 9%KAI BENACK: $9k → 12%MATTHEW BALLARD: $5k → 13%SKYLAR DAVIS: $9k → 13%CYSTIC FIBROSIS PATIENT CARE FUND: $10k → 13%NICOLE KOHR: $12k → 14%RANDY WALKER: $33k → 16%THOMAS BUNCE: $10k → 20%EDWIN CLEMMONS: $8k → 20%FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 9%GIFT OF ADOPTION: $35k → 14%ALLISON BUCKLEY: $19k → 11%DEVON CHESTER: $6k → 13%MVW NUTRIONALS: $7k → 11%WAKE TECH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%KEVIN PRIESTLY: $6k → 10%SNOW APPROACH FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%NICOLE KOHR: $10k → 14%RANDY WALKER: $25k → 16%NATASHA BERLINSKY: $6k → 20%FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 9%BRIAN DONAHUE: $5k → 11%ZACHARY LEIBOWITZ: $12k → 6%SARAH CHESTER: $4k → 13%HEALING TRANSITIONS: $4k → 8%JACK CROSS: $49k → 10%KYLE MCREE: $45k → 13%BETHANY WHITTEN: $4k → 15%JACK CROSS: $6k → 10%MONICA BRITT: $6k → 13%WAKE FOREST BAPTIST PANCREATIC RESEARCH FUND: $5k → 16%RESOLVE NIGHT OF HOPE SPONSORSHIP: $20k → 6%KYLE MCREE: $7k → 13%ASHLEY DUNN: $10k → 20%MIKE KOZLOWKSKI: $4k → 10%JDRF DIABETES FUNDRAISER: $5k → 8%ALEXIS SMITH: $14k → 12%HERBERT BRYAN: $10k → 16%RANDY PONT: $6k → 16%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%MAKE A WISH EASTERN NC: $8k → 8%FOLLOW THE CHILD: $6k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 56 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 265 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
32

Total granted

$403k
$70k

Still filing today

0%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $58k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $52k

Funded once

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS PATIENT CARE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • DH
    DUKE HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc

The mission is to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives.

Science & Tech
3
Laura Norton Fund
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4
Shivers Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Chicago Cf Care Specialists Nfp Foundati

The organization is organized exclusively for. education, scientificresearch and charitable purposes as defined in section 501(c)(3) ofthe internal revenue code, including but not limited to, the study anddiagnosis of conditions related to…

Health
6
Chasing Hope Foundation Christine Walker
Human Services
7
Breathe Easy for Cff

Support for individuals suffering from cystic fibrosis by supporting the cystic fibrosis foundation in order to find a cure for the disease.

Health
8
Take a Breather Foundation

To raise funds through charitable endeavors and activities to be used to fulfill wishes of children and adults with cystic fibrosis

Health
9
Breathestrong Cf Inc

BreatheStrong CF promotes awareness in various ways for the cause of cystic fibrosis, conducting outreach and fundraising involving running-related events and other activities for the support and enhancement of the cystic fibrosis…

Philanthropy
10
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
11
Awaken Recovery Foundation
Health
12
Lillie Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina; the most unlike its peers is Live Fearlessly Foundation 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

13 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. 13 of the 353 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $58,274 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $54,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,191 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIFT OF ADOPTION: $35,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25,396 · Other+186 more: $508,852 · Other+186 moreRESOLVE Incorporated: $20,000 · HealthHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $4,000 · HealthBONNELL FOUNDATION LIVING WITH CYSTIC FI: $3,000 · HealthPIPERS ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthBreathe Bravely Inc: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $529 · HealthWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSnow Approach Foundation Inc: $3,805 · Community ImprovementOVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$734,379Health$32,029Education$5,000Community Improvement$3,805Youth Development$1,000

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%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESOLVE Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $10,660 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONNELL FOUNDATION LIVING WITH CYSTIC FI: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $1,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $529 over 1y, 0.0% 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 RESOLVE Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Filotimo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Filotimo Foundation 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 353 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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