Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Frances M and W W Rankin Memorial Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 FY20182025.

Education$606kHuman Services$382kYouth Development$153k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS$20,000
THE TRUSTEES OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC$20,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
ST ANDREWS PRESYBTERIAN COLLEGE$14,853
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC$10,000
MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD$10,000
MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $11k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $11k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $22k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $10k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $20k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $10k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $20k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $9k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $20k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $9k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $19k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $9k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $18k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $9k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $9k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $18k → 21%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $8k → 11%MASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC: $8k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NC INC: $17k → 21%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $11k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $10k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $10k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $10k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $9k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $9k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $9k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC: $8k → 16%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 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$15k

Still filing today

73%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SA
    ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $133k · revenue +41%
  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +60%
  • THE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $76k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ANDREWS PRESYBTERIAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2025 · $15k

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
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
4
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
5
Wingate University

The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.

Education
6
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Morningside University

The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.

Education
9
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
10
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
11
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
12
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Masonic Home for Children At Oxford Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Homes of Nc 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NC STATE UNIVERSITY — $153,186 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $133,186 · OtherST ANDREWS UNIVERSITYDAVIDSON COLLEGE ENDOWMENT — $93,700 · OtherDAVIDSON COLLEGE ENDOWMENTMASONIC & EASTERN STAR HOME NC — $18,547 · OtherST ANDREWS PRESYBTERIAN COLLEGE — $14,853 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC — $153,186 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INCPRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC — $76,607 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES INCTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $75,940 · Human ServicesTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXF…MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $58,060 · Human ServicesMASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF NOR…WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY — $153,186 · EducationWILLIAM PEACE UNIVER…Davidson College — $58,152 · EducationDavidson CollegeBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $153,196 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF WA…
Other$413,472Human Services$363,793Education$211,338Youth Development$153,196

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $153,196 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC — $153,186 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY — $153,186 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $133,186 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC — $76,607 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $75,940 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDavidson College — $58,152 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $58,060 over 6y, 0.1% 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 BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC
  • Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC
  • Who funds THE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC
  • Who funds Davidson College
  • Who funds MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA 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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Frances M and W W Rankin Memorial Fd 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph