· Public charity
Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
To advance philanthropy through education and to raise permanent charitable resources to improve and strengthen the quality of jewish life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 82 grants below total $8,498,568 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,344,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $846,180 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 $10k8 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k16 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $2,167,468 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE INC | $1,000,000 |
| SANDRA AND LEON LEVINE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $693,904 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC | $527,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $377,957 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $270,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $264,600 |
| CHARLOTTE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC | $242,875 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $212,100 |
| RELATIVES INC | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $186,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC | $186,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $168,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF SHALOM PARK INC | $160,100 |
| MERKOS LINYONEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $135,618 |
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 (FY19–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- UJUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +41% · 27% of their budget
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +195%
- SASandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -78%
- CLCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
- DDDigital Divide Dataone grant, 2019 · $700k · revenue -42% · 29% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. 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.
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 42 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 156 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 United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Foundation of Shalom Park ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Digital Divide Data ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds CLT IMPACT INVESTORS ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Merancas 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 Charlotte Jewish Community 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
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.