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Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc

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.

$116k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$973k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$116k61%
FY20237$78k43%
FY20223$44k33%
FY20217$35k43%
FY202011$79k45%
FY201910$44k50%
FY20189$66k22%
FY201711$143kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$343kYouth Development$111kHuman Services$48kEducation$32kEnvironment$22kFood & Nutrition$15kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpay Neuter Charlotte: $125,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAkita Rescue Society of Florida: $103,062 over 8y, 22% of budgetSaving Grace Animals for Adoption: $68,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $48,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetUrbanPromise Charlotte: $38,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCarteret County Humane Society Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCatawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Women's Shelter Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Lurecrest Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope Mission of Coastal Carolina Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHospitality House of Northwest North Carolina: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Up: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Grier: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCarteret County Public School Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAdoption First Animal Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCms Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Violence Prevention Center Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Mecklenburg Animal Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAustin Veterinary Outreach & Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBig East Akita Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMisplaced Mutts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAsheville Humane Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Akita Rescue Division Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHope Is Alive Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC22.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Big Rock Foundation Inc · Crystal Coast Tournament Inc · Womens Impact Fund · Merancas Foundation Inc · True Homes Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc

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.

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How do I get to Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc 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.

About Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc

How much does Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc give?
Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (57%), Youth Development (18%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spay Neuter Charlotte ($125k), Akita Rescue Society of Florida ($103k), Saving Grace Animals for Adoption ($68k).
Does Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, North Carolina Community Foundation.
Where is Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc based?
Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 41 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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