· Private foundation
Harold and Margaret Deal Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| EARLIERORG | $5,000 |
| HART SQUARE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| PIEDMONT COUNCIL BSA | $3,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF NC | $3,000 |
| SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $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 (FY20–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +49%
- HCHICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +59%
- FFFRIENDS FOR AN EARLIER BREAST CANCER TEST INC3× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- GHGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -43%
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.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Cary christian school provides an excellent classical education founded upon a biblical worldview. classical christian education is an integrated approach to learning which complements students' natural learning stages while infusing…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The north carolina humanities council is dedicated to promoting free public programs in the humanities across north carolina.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
To foster and promote christian stewardship and for promoting and providing support to the ministries in north carolina affiliated with or consistent with the convention of original free will baptists and other charitable, education,…
To consistently deliver exceptional quality and service by demonstrating the values of respect, integrity, innovation, fiscal responsibility and accountability. to be an outstanding community healthcare organization, with service as our…
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministry 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 17 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR AN EARLIER BREAST CANCER TEST INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Harbor of NC Inc ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 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: George Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Underdown Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust · The Lb Lane Family Foundation 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 Harold and Margaret Deal 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.
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.