· Private foundation
Fulton Family Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASU FOUNDATION-FULTON FAMILY SCHOLA | $25,000 |
| UNCG EXCELLENCE FDN-ETHEL C FULTON | $25,000 |
| THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC | $20,000 |
| RED FEATHER EQUINE SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TWO RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WATAUGA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HAND ME DOWN DOBES | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- TRTwo Rivers Community School2× · 2024–2025 · $56k · revenue +0%
- WHWATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
- WSWINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BWBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Incone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue 0%
- SRSTAR RANCH HORSE RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $30k
- UEUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION - ETHEL C FULTON SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Providing a safe and humane animal shelter for unwanted animals in Hawkins County.
To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
The mission of the hopkins county humane society is to ensure the humane and compassionate treatment of all animals.
Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.
The mission of wvhs is to serve the community through education, protection and pet adoptions. we continue our mission by taking care of displaced pets, rescuing injured and lost animals, providing spay/neuter programs, investigating…
to find forever homes for unwanted animals
The care and adoption of stray, domestic animals
Care for homeless animals
Education, promotion, and implementation of effective spay and neuter services for animals, rescue of abused animals, foster services for animals available for adoption, and administration of adoption of animals to qualified applicants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is High Country Caregiver Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 Two Rivers Community School ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RED FEATHER FARM ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HAND ME DOWN DOBES ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Fulton Family Trust 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.
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.