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First Citizens 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILSON FORWARD | $5,000 |
| AVA GARDNER MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| WILSON ARTS | $5,000 |
| JOHNSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BENSON HEALTH | $2,000 |
| JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| NC A&T UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL2× · 2017–2020 · $31k · revenue +55%
- JMJOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +154%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BCBARTON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +32%
- NLNEUSE LITTLE THEATRE INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF WAKE COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
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.
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.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Babson college educates entrepreneurial leaders who impact communities everywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Ava Gardner Museum 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 51 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 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.
24 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. 24 of the 47 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 SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ava Gardner Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds BENSON AREA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAMPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BENTONVILLE BATTLEFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILSON FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Historic Smithfield Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS SMITHFIELD NC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AVERETT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC ↗
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 · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 First Citizens 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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