· Private foundation
Golden Pearl 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| PIE IN THE SKY | $10,000 |
| AGRIAUTISMINC | $10,000 |
| THE O'NEAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $5,000 |
| OVERFLOWING HANDS | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $2,000 |
| CRAFT EMERGENCY RELEIF FUND INC | $2,000 |
| HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC | $2,000 |
| WINE TO WATER | $2,000 |
| PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS | $2,000 |
| CIVILIAN DISASTER RESPONSE ORGANIZATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $185k · revenue +110%
- SISANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +22%
- ICInspiration Corporation6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- CBCHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $1k
- VHVillage Heritage Foundationone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue -33%
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.
The corporation is organized and operated for the purpose of providing immediate assistance to victims of natural disasters within the united states. the corporation focuses its relief primarily on the continental u.s. but the board of…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
On mission network is a nationwide collection of christ-centered ministry partners who equip and send out volunteers to provide disaster relief and generational impact through sustainable locally sourced development.
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
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…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Neighborhood Tables purpose is to support the community through peace-making and a sense of belonging through facilitating civil conversation artistic expression social interaction and education
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of North Carolina…
Deliver The Difference is a humanitarian hunger relief organizations. We believe it is wrong that children go to bed hungry and not knowing where their next meal will come from. We believe it is wrong that seniors have to decided whether…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Chefs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds OVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Village Heritage 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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Golden Pearl 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation 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.