· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARTERET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| URBAN PROMISE CHARLOTTE | $10,000 |
| HOPE MISSION OF CARTERET COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AKITA RESCUE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER | $5,000 |
| CAMP LURECREST | $5,000 |
| ADOPTION FIRST ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| CARTERET COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| CAMP GRIER | $5,000 |
| CARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN | $5,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $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 (FY19–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- SNSpay Neuter Charlotte3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +94%
SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +2%- RBR Bruce Irons Camp Fund5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +291%
Funded once
Teach for America Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -3%- SHSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
- NUNourish Upgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
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.
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…
Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina
Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there.…
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
Our mission is to rescue, foster, transport, and find homes for unwanted, abandoned and abused dogs in the Carolinas. Halfway There Rescue's goal is to pull at-risk pets from over-crowded shelters in North and South Carolina, place them in…
he Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance (PAW Alliance) is an all-volunteer animal welfare / social justice nonprofit in Forsyth County, NC. We envision a world where no person or animal will be thrown away, and our mission is to make our…
Chatham Animal Rescue and Education, Inc. is a Not-For-Profit Organization, whose mission is to promote the health and safety of all dogs and cats in Chatham County, North Carolina.
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
To work with animals concentrating on animal welfare, adoption, spay/neuter, and community awareness in the wiregrass area. in addition, we work with other shelters throughout the southeast by transporting adoptable animals to locations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akita Rescue Society of Florida. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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 Spay Neuter Charlotte ↗
- Who funds AKITA RESCUE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds UrbanPromise Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Lurecrest Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Camp Grier ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION FIRST ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ourBRIDGE Inc ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Mecklenburg Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN VETERINARY OUTREACH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MISPLACED MUTTS ↗
- Who funds Pet Cottage Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AKITA RESCUE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AKITA RESCUE-MID ATLANTIC COAST 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 · 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
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 Harris Upchurch 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.
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