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Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc % Mary-Owens Fitzgerald
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC MUSEUM OF ART | $3,012 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NC SYMPHONY | $2,530 |
| NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $2,530 |
| CAROLINA BALLET | $2,530 |
| NC OPERA COMPANY | $2,500 |
| METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| LAKE JUNALUSKA ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $1,250 |
| WOMEN'S GIVING NETWORK OF WAKE CO | $1,200 |
| NC THEATRE | $1,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNC-GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT | $1,000 |
| TRANSITION LIFECARE OF WAKE CO | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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 +49% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +51%
CAROLINA BALLET INC6× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +43%- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SNSOIL NORTH CAROLINA FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC-GREENSBOROone grant, 2017 · $1k
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +72%
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 north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
Note in the pocket provides clothing to impoverished and homeless school children in wake county with dignity and love. we believe it is unacceptable that children in wake county are limited in their educational and social development…
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Abundance 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.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 55 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF NC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH ↗
- Who funds The Abundance Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc % Mary-Owens Fitzgerald 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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