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Gordy-Steidinger Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Carolina Ballet Inc | $2,800 |
| Sandhills Community College Foundat | $2,500 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $1,650 |
| Congregational Church of Pinehurst | $1,200 |
| Animal Advocates of Moore County | $1,200 |
| Habitat for Humanity of the NC Sand | $1,000 |
| Moore Free Charitable Clinic | $1,000 |
| Needs Beyond Medicine | $750 |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhill | $725 |
| Prancing Horse Ctr for Therapeutic | $500 |
| Friend to Friend | $500 |
| Given Memorial Library--Tufts Archi | $500 |
| Womans Exchange Cabin Preservation | $500 |
| Weymouth Center for the Arts Humani | $500 |
| Animal Rescue League in Dedham | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
CAROLINA BALLET INC7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +43%- FTFRIEND TO FRIEND6× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +77%
- NBNeeds Beyond Medicine6× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- COCity of New Yorkone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county
Cape fear clinic provides compassionate and affordable patient-centered healthcare to low income individuals and families in the cape fear region, regardless of their ability to pay.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sandhills Womans Exchange Cabin Preservation Org. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 64 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 SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND TO FRIEND ↗
- Who funds Needs Beyond Medicine ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Animal Advocates of Moore County Inc ↗
- Who funds Sandhills Womans Exchange Cabin Preservation Org ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds MOORE FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Moore County ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MOORE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE 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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Pinehurst Community Foundation Inc · Rauch Rainoff Foundation Inc · John and Mary Camp Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Thomas R and Kathy S McPherson Family Foundation · The Mary Murrill Oakes Family Private Foundation · Stan and Jean Bradshaw Foundation · Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc
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 Gordy-Steidinger 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.
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