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Giving With Grace 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$361k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Animals$1.3MHuman Services$670kHealth$624kCrime & Legal$123kFood & Nutrition$90kHousing & Shelter$90kEducation$51kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $576k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $677k
  • $250k+2 grants · $611k
$6,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS INC$361,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC$250,000
HOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC$112,500
LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC$100,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE INC$100,000
HELPING ANIMALS TO SURVIVE$72,595
FRIENDS OF THE ANSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$71,500
DOVE HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$60,000
PARKINS PAWCAB$55,500
STAND FOR ANIMALS$55,000
VIA HEALTH PARTNERSHOSPICE$50,000
CAROLINA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER$40,000
SPAY NEUTER NC INC$35,000
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC$35,000
PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE$35,000
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 (FY23–24, $534k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $3k → 10%YOUTH VILLAGES: $30k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 17%CATERPILLAR MINISTRIES: $19k → 10%BRIDGE OF HEARTS: $3k → 9%FOSTER VILLAGE CHARLOTTE INC: $10k → 7%LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS INC: $361k → 12%LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS INC: $63k → 12%LORAY GIRLS HOME: $5k → 12%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $4k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $3k → 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

VT
MN
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 31 repeat orgs$749k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

$2.2M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+19%

Still filing today

84%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $514k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • LO
    Least of These Carolinas
    2× · 2023–2024 · $424k · revenue +132% · 28% of their budget
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $310k · revenue +28%
  • HA
    HOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $148k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MA
    MAKE A WISH CENTRAL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $96k
  • FA
    FURBABIES ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • CM
    Caterpillar Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +11%
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 Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
2
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
3
Promoting Animal Welfare in North Carolina

Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…

Animals
4
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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5
Rustys Rescue Ranch Inc

Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina

Animals
6
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…

Animals
7
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
8
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
9
Pisgah Animal Welfare Society Inc
Animals
10
Spca of Northeastern North Carolina

The organization provides shelter for homeless, abused, and abandoned animals. the shelter also provides an opportunity for adoption of these animals

Animals
11
Carolina Cat Rescue

Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there.…

Animals
12
Meows and Mutts Rescue

We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co; the most unlike its peers is Ausie Rivens Community Center 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
40/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $122,500 · AnimalsLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INCSpay Neuter Charlotte: $122,500 · AnimalsSpay Neuter CharlotteHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $118,500 · AnimalsHumane Society of Charlotte IncFRIENDS OF THE ANSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $104,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ANSON COUNTY ANIMAL SH…Helping Animals to Survive Inc: $85,095 · AnimalsHelping Animals to Survive IncCliffords Army Rescue Extravaganza Inc: $65,000 · AnimalsCliffords Army Rescue Extravaganza In…CAROLINA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENT ER: $65,000 · AnimalsCAROLINA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENT E…PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $45,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC: $42,500 · Animals+22 more: $221,750 · Animals+22 moreVIA HEALTH PARTNERSHOSPICE: $100,000 · OtherVIA HEALTH PARTNERSHOSPICEMAKE A WISH CENTRAL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $96,023 · OtherMAKE A WISH CENTRAL WESTERN …PARKINS PAWCAB: $55,500 · OtherPARKINS PAWCABSPAY NEUTER NC INC: $35,000 · OtherHAPPY TAILS RESCUE INC: $33,500 · OtherPARTNERS FOR CATS: $26,750 · OtherCARE ANIMAL SHELTER: $25,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INCHope of Mooresville Inc: $25,000 · OtherCORNELIUS EARLY SCHOLARS: $35,000 · Other+46 more: $265,200 · Other+46 moreLeast of These Carolinas: $424,475 · Human ServicesLeast of These Carol…YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCExceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCaterpillar Ministries: $18,600 · Human Services+6 more: $36,000 · Human Services+6 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $310,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FO…COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthCOOL KIDS CAMP…Pats Place Child Advocacy Center: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $18,700 · HealthHOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $147,500 · ReligionDOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $90,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,500 · Crime & LegalANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDNC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBAGS OF HOPE: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$991,845Other$746,973Human Services$544,075Health$383,700Religion$147,500Crime & Legal$92,500Food & Nutrition$85,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeast of These Carolinas: $424,475 over 2y, 28% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $310,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $147,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $122,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSpay Neuter Charlotte: $122,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $118,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $104,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetDOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $90,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHelping Animals to Survive Inc: $85,095 over 2y, 89% of budgetCliffords Army Rescue Extravaganza Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCAROLINA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENT ER: $65,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC: $42,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCORNELIUS EARLY SCHOLARS: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFEEDNC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAKE NORMAN LUCKY CAT PROGRAM: $25,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetHope of Mooresville Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKORAS RESCUE RANCH: $25,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetExceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CARE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCaterpillar Ministries: $18,600 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetANGELS TO THE ANIMALS: $18,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetANIMAL LEAGUE OF GASTON COUNTY: $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOW CHARMER RESCUE: $12,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNaughty Donkey Farm Sanctuary Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSPAY IT FORWARD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCAT SMART COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFoster Village Charlotte: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSunkissed Acres NC: $10,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBAGS OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAKE NORMAN HUNTERSVILLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFriends of Feral Felines: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVE STEP INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCATHERINE'S HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER DOG TRANSPORT ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRADLEY AND NIKKI BOZEMAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Peninsula Communi…Albemarle FoundationThe Dale Jr FoundationSpeedway Children's C…The Presbyterian Hosp…The Covia FoundationTrue Homes Foundation…Merancas Foundation I…The Leon Levine Found…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC42.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Peninsula Community Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Dale Jr Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Covia Foundation · True Homes Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Giving With Grace Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Giving With Grace Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 110 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-PF 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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