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Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

$804M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,605
Grants FY2024still arriving
47
States reached
$57M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$1.0BEducation$772MHealth$284MArts & Culture$141MInternational$130MHuman Services$106MReligion$95MPhilanthropy$86MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1605 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1,605 grants below total $609,062,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $804,486,974 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,424,425 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k128 grants · $900k
  • $10k–50k901 grants · $17M
  • $50k–250k339 grants · $34M
  • $250k+237 grants · $557M
$25,000
Median grant
47
States reached
$3.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATAWBA COLLEGE$56,557,611
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$26,472,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$24,000,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$20,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$17,000,000
NOVA UKRAINE$16,000,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$14,095,000
DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE$13,005,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$12,250,000
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY$11,831,270
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$11,330,515
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$11,075,000
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE$10,210,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$10,000,000
LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE$8,500,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $51.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE CLEVELAND COUNTY INC: $1.8M → 17%YMCA - UPPER PALMETTO: $1.1M → 8%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $460k → 9%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $500k → 17%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $446k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $358k → 16%ROWAN-CABARRUS YMCA: $735k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $607k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $529k → 15%APSEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $493k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $439k → 15%RELATIVES INC: $430k → 10%PINES AT DAVIDSON INC: $1.0M → 10%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $1.0M → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $632k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $462k → 8%CENTER FOR HEALTHY LIVING INC: $500k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $892k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5.0M → 14%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $765k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $574k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $569k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $530k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $414k → 10%COMMUNITY REAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS: $3.4M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $2.6M → 10%COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION: $2.4M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.8M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.4M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.4M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.3M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.2M → 10%GRACE-MAR SERVICES INC: $1.0M → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $995k → 10%RELATIVES INC: $430k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC: $358k → 10%RELATIVES INC: $352k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC: $340k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1.8M → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1.6M → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1.3M → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1.0M → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $955k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $835k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $582k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $538k → 10%HEAL CHARLOTTE: $314k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $1.7M → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9B · 1618 repeat orgs$108M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

1618 repeat relationships — 1050 still active in FY2024, 568 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1618
240

Total granted

$2.9B
$83M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+10%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $222M · revenue +55% · 82% of their budget
  • CC
    CATAWBA COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $216M · revenue +455% · 47% of their budget
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96M · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • FP
    FFTC PARTNERS FOR EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $19M · 100% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10M · revenue -45% · 45% of their budget
  • CR
    COMMUNITY REAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3.4M · revenue +219% · 92% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
2
Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education
3
North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
5
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech
6
South Carolina Council On

Providing actionable research, supporting industry clusters, and furthering education and workforce development.

Community Improvement
7
New North Carolina Project Action First

The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.

Civil Rights
8
Charlotte Works

Leading the development of a skilled and in-demand workforce by engaging businesses, aligning community partners, empowering and connecting job seeker to meaningful employer, and fostering inclusive economic growth.

Employment
9
University of South Carolina Alumni

Add value to students. engage our alumni. build the brand.

Education
10
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
11
Great Schools Nc

Great schools north carolina (gsnc) removes barriers for public charter schools by providing strategic funding and partnerships to expand access to high-quality education.

Education
12
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps and the most unlike its peers is The New Museum At the Bradford Brinton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsJewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Military Veterans SupportPublic Library OperationsEquine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Food PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Women & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Local Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportSchool District FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Senior Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentUnited Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr12%42%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%61/3,420
the rest of the field
16%
7,919/49,760

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.

04the grantee network

1645 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. 1645 of the 2,000 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.

289
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
491
Early backer (in before they grew)
1599/1645
Grantees still filing
1185/1645
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARTHJUSTICE — $95,646,750 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $72,624,300 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE CO…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $60,600,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTER…Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $44,074,930 · EnvironmentSouthern Appalachian Highlan…NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION — $36,382,600 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CON…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $36,062,850 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION+38 more — $293,588,938 · Environment+38 moreCATAWBA COLLEGE — $216,478,854 · EducationCATAWBA COLLEGEDUKE UNIVERSITY — $74,632,976 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $34,663,826 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCH…Queens University of Charlotte — $25,965,173 · EducationPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $19,220,000 · Education+32 more — $185,348,535 · Education+32 moreSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $221,683,800 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERRocky Mountain Institute — $92,801,000 · OtherRocky Mountain InstituteFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $28,768,490 · OtherPOPULATION CONNECTION — $45,000,850 · OtherPOPULATION CONNECTION+62 more — $410,621,296 · Other+62 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $45,328,207 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $42,181,830 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $18,005,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,243,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $9,324,064 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $9,100,000 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL — $9,100,000 · Health+9 more — $31,444,230 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC — $41,160,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE — $28,000,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,002,250 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,378,300 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $13,620,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,836,748 · InternationalDKT INTERNATIONAL INC — $8,200,000 · InternationalIPAS — $5,875,000 · InternationalCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $20,252,127 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $14,231,953 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY PLACE INC — $9,845,776 · Arts & CultureBELL TOWER GREEN INC — $9,801,226 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE BALLET — $8,054,583 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC — $6,913,711 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL AND HERITAGE COMMISSION — $6,407,777 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,167,250 · Arts & CultureThe Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc — $4,720,144 · Arts & CultureCCCP COMMUNITY TRUST — $4,709,144 · Arts & CultureMcColl Center for Art Innovation — $4,238,694 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $31,503,828 · Arts & CultureThe Tom Wathen Center — $26,576,109 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $16,867,116 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $11,502,937 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $5,075,844 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $4,242,285 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County Foundation — $4,025,000 · PhilanthropyFoothills Community Foundation — $3,301,919 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $2,594,326 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,361,681 · Philanthropy
Environment$638,980,368Education$556,309,364Other$798,875,436Health$178,726,831International$144,072,298Arts & Culture$125,846,213Philanthropy$76,547,217

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $221,683,800 over 8y, 82% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE — $216,478,854 over 8y, 47% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $95,646,750 over 8y, 23% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $92,801,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $74,632,976 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $72,624,300 over 8y, 13% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $60,600,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $45,328,207 over 8y, 20% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $45,000,850 over 8y, 51% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $44,074,930 over 8y, 69% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $42,181,830 over 8y, 30% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $41,160,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION — $36,382,600 over 8y, 87% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $36,062,850 over 8y, 21% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $34,663,826 over 8y, 31% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $28,768,490 over 8y, 37% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $28,000,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetThe Tom Wathen Center — $26,576,109 over 8y, 96% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte — $25,965,173 over 8y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $20,300,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $20,252,127 over 8y, 33% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $20,040,000 over 8y, 56% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,002,250 over 8y, 13% of budgetFFTC PARTNERS FOR EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES — $19,284,130 over 1y, 100% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $19,220,000 over 7y, 57% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $19,089,074 over 8y, 11% of budgetREVIVE & RESTORE — $18,870,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $18,401,633 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $18,005,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC — $18,000,000 over 7y, 97% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $17,940,124 over 8y, 48% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $16,867,116 over 3y, 33% of budgetSOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY — $16,333,000 over 7y, 88% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,378,300 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK — $15,358,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $14,800,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY — $14,385,785 over 7y, 21% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,243,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $14,231,953 over 8y, 66% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $14,120,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $13,700,200 over 8y, 31% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $13,679,600 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $13,620,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $12,870,871 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $12,368,829 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $12,325,400 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $12,117,002 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,836,748 over 8y, 1.0% of budget
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 SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds The Tom Wathen Center ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FFTC PARTNERS FOR EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REVIVE & RESTORE ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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.

United Way of Greater…The Leon Levine Found…Merancas Foundation I…Arts & Science Counci…The Cannon Foundation…The Presbyterian Hosp…Margaret C Woodson Fo…Womens Impact FundDowd Foundation IncPhilip L Van Every Fo…Foundation for the Ch…The Dickson Foundatio…
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC153.7× affinity264 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Womens Impact Fund · Dowd Foundation Inc · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Dickson 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 Foundation for the Carolinas 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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