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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,605 grants below total $609,062,549, the rows itemized in this filing. The $804,486,974 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $195,424,425 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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
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.
$2.9B · 1618 repeat orgs$108M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
241

Total granted

$2.9B
$83M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+11%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps; 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.
04the grantee network

1645 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. 1645 of the 2,000 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.

288
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
485
Early backer (in before they grew)
1599/1645
Grantees still filing
1197/1645
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $9,100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $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 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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 2000 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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