· Private foundation
H Manly and Mary Robertson Clark Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $11,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC | $5,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CARY | $3,500 |
| CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS AMERICA | $3,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF WILMINGTON | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| SAMPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| BROUGHTON CAPS CLUB | $2,500 |
| GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES | $2,000 |
| BLADEN LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| TIM'S GIFT | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- ECElizabethtown Christian Academy Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +308%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +46%
TABLE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +320%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $150k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - HURRICANE FLORENCE RELIEFone grant, 2018 · $22k
- CCCHRIS COMBS PROJECT ALSone grant, 2018 · $8k
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 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…
To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Provide emergency medical services to residents and businesses of township 7 and the surrounding areas of craven county, north carolina
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…
The YMCA of Southeastern NC (YMCA of SENC)is an inclusive non-profit association committed to putting Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Our staff and volunteers work…
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp 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.
Your grantees are a median of 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 59 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 MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elizabethtown Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds BLADEN COUNTY YOUTH FOCUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS EMPOWERING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN DIXIE YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Helene Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINA CROSSROADS 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 H Manly and Mary Robertson Clark Family Foundation Inc 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.