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Four Ten Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$367k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEE GIVE FOOD PANTRY$9,396
FIRST BAPTIST CHARLOTTE$8,000
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$8,000
ST PETER'S WORLD OUTREACH$4,000
LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH$4,000
P23 RETREAT$4,000
LEGACY HILLS CHURCH$4,000
COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$4,000
FIRST TEE OF CENTRAL CAROLINA$4,000
CONNECTING THE GAP$4,000
SHERMAN ACADEMY$4,000
LEAD GIRLS OF NC$4,000
BETHESDA CENTER$4,000
CROSSROADS$4,000
KICKO$4,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRACE MAR SERVICES: $4k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $4k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $4k → 10%BETHESDA CENTER: $4k → 15%B HELPFUL LOVE: $4k → 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.

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 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
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
2
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
3
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
4
House of Hope of Nc Inc

Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens

Education
5
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
6
Fresh Start Alamance Inc

Charitable nonprofit providing assistance to individuals in need in Alamance County

Housing & Shelter
7
Youth Crisis Center Inc

The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.

Human Services
8
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
9
Second Home Support Network

To provide tangible support and care to foster, adoptive, and kinship families in the Raleigh/Durham area.

Health
10
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
11
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
12
Heal Charlotte

Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golf Fore Fun Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bhelpful Love Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEE GIVE FOOD PANTRY — $9,396 · OtherWEE GIVE FOOD PANTRYFIRST BAPTIST CHARLOTTE — $8,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHARLOTTECROSSROADS — $4,000 · OtherCROSSROADSCONNECTING THE GAP — $4,000 · OtherCONNECTING THE GAPLIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $4,000 · OtherLIFE COMMUNITY CHURCHKICKO — $4,000 · OtherKICKOCENTER GROVE — $4,000 · OtherCENTER GROVEST PETER'S WORLD OUTREACH — $4,000 · OtherST PETER'S WORLD OUTREACHLEGACY HILLS CHURCH — $4,000 · OtherLEGACY HILLS CHURCHSafe Alliance Inc — $4,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance IncBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $4,000 · Human ServicesBethesda Center for th…BHELPFUL LOVE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesBHELPFUL LOVE INCGRACE-MAR SERVICES INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesGRACE-MAR SERVICES INCBEDS FOR KIDS INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesBEDS FOR KIDS INCEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH…LEAD Girls of NC Inc — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD Girls of…ALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC — $4,000 · EducationSherman Academy Inc — $4,000 · EducationANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $4,000 · HealthP23 Retreat — $4,000 · ReligionGOLF FORE FUN INC — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$45,396Human Services$20,000Youth Development$12,000Education$8,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Health$4,000Religion$4,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetP23 Retreat — $4,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGRACE-MAR SERVICES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEDS FOR KIDS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLF FORE FUN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSherman Academy Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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.

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Four Ten Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

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

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