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Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$973k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARTERET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE MISSION OF CARTERET COUNTY$10,000
AKITA RESCUE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA$10,000
URBAN PROMISE CHARLOTTE$10,000
CARTERET COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$5,000
ADOPTION FIRST ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION$5,000
COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER$5,000
CAMP GRIER$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN$5,000
CARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
CAMP LURECREST$5,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC$5,000
AUSTIN VETERINARY OUTREACH & RESCUE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $5k → 14%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $5k → 14%Safe Alliance: $11k → 10%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $2k → 14%SAFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%Safe Alliance: $1k → 10%Our Bridge for Kids: $5k → 10%Loaves and Fishes: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$502k · 14 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$502k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

93%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SN
    Spay Neuter Charlotte
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +94%
  • SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +2%
  • RB
    R Bruce Irons Camp Fund
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +291%

Funded once

  • SH
    Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • NU
    Nourish Upgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Animal Network

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…

Animals
2
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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3
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

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.

Animals
4
Promoting Animal Welfare in North Carolina

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…

Animals
5
Rustys Rescue Ranch Inc

Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina

Animals
6
Carolina Cat Rescue

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.…

Animals
7
Meows and Mutts Rescue

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.

Animals
8
Halfway There Rescue

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…

Unclassified
9
Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance

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…

Animals
10
Chatham Animal Rescue and Education Inc

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.

Animals
11
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
12
Save a Pet Rescue Adoption and Transport Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Humane Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spay Neuter Charlotte: $125,000 · AnimalsSpay Neuter CharlotteSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $68,000 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTIONCARTERET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $26,000 · AnimalsCARTERET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC+9 more: $18,000 · Animals+9 moreAKITA RESCUE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $103,062 · OtherAKITA RESCUE SOCIETY OF FLORIDABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $25,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTA…PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPITT COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUN…HOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC: $10,000 · OtherHOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA I…Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $10,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrol…+12 more: $27,000 · Other+12 moreR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentR Bruce Irons Ca…UrbanPromise Charlotte: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentUrbanPromise Cha…Safe Alliance Inc: $17,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $5,000 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentTeach for America Inc: $10,000 · EducationCARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCamp Lurecrest Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCamp Grier: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$237,000Other$185,062Youth Development$86,000Human Services$39,000Environment$22,000Education$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationFoundation for the Ca…North Carolina Commun…Albemarle FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Equitable Foundation …Big Rock Foundation I…Crystal Coast Tournam…Womens Impact FundMerancas Foundation I…True Homes Foundation…United Way of Greater…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris Upchurch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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