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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.

$38k
Granted FY2022
35
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$75kReligion$52kEducation$31kScience & Tech$12kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2022 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$420k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC MUSEUM OF ART$3,012
OUTWARD BOUND CANADA$3,000
NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$2,530
NC SYMPHONY$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
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNC-GREENSBORO$1,000
HAYES BARTON METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
NC THEATRE$1,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $400 → 8%READ & FEED: $1k → 8%READ & FEED: $200 → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $100 → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 36 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
14

Total granted

$231k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+36%

Still filing today

39%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +51%
  • CAROLINA BALLET INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +43%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SN
    SOIL NORTH CAROLINA FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +72%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NC-GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

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…

Science & Tech
2
Nc Budget & Tax Center

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…

Civil Rights
3
The Resiliency Collaborative Inc

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.

Education
4
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
5
North Carolina Bar Association

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…

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6
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

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…

Health
7
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Wake County Smart Start Inc

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.

Education
9
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

—
10
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
11
Note in the Pocket Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAYES BARTON UMC CHURCH: $47,075 · OtherHAYES BARTON UMC CHURCHNC MUSEUM OF ART: $18,897 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF ARTOUTWARD BOUND CANADA: $18,000 · OtherOUTWARD BOUND CANADANC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $12,296 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCENC MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $7,628 · OtherNC OPERA COMPANY: $7,500 · OtherWOMEN'S GIVING NETWORK OF WAKE CO: $7,200 · OtherNC ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS: $6,000 · Other+35 more: $44,452 · Other+35 moreCAROLINA BALLET INC: $15,798 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA BALL…NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $12,906 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLIN…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,400 · EducationDUKE UNIVE…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationHIGH POINT…The Methodist Home for Children Inc: $7,785 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $3,658 · Human ServicesREAD AND FEED: $1,200 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesLake Junaluska Assembly Inc: $4,000 · ReligionABILITIES TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF NC: $2,700 · Recreation & SportsFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$169,048Arts & Culture$29,704Education$21,400Human Services$12,743Religion$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,700Food & Nutrition$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $15,798 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $12,906 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $7,785 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLake Junaluska Assembly Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $3,658 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABILITIES TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF NC: $2,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH: $2,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Abundance Foundation Inc: $1,275 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREAD AND FEED: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $100 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗

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 IncNC29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc % Mary-Owens Fitzgerald funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc % Mary-Owens Fitzgerald. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc % Mary-Owens Fitzgerald 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 55 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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