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Healthy Charlotte Alliance Inc

Healthy Charlotte Alliance (Alliance) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to improve the health and quality of life for all people of Mecklenburg County.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$347kHuman Services$84kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$50kYouth Development$37kHousing & Shelter$25kAnimals$25k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Care Ring$25,000
Crittenton of NC$25,000
Bee Mighty$20,000
Pats Place Child Advocacy Ce$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Relatives: $10k → 10%Youth Villages North Carolina: $20k → 10%Right Moves for Youth: $25k → 10%NC Med Assist: $23k → 10%NC Med Assist: $10k → 10%Foster Village Charlotte: $15k → 10%Carolina Refugee Resettlement: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 62% of Healthy Charlotte Alliance Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Healthy Charlotte Alliance Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$126k · 3 repeat orgs$492k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
20

Total granted

$126k
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-27%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CR
    Care Ring Inc
    3× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +117%
  • SH
    SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $37k · revenue -39%
  • MO
    MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist
    2× · 2018–2020 · $33k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • MF
    MATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +68%
  • PA
    PRESENT AGE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CAMINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
3
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
4
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
5
Samaritan Health Center Inc

To provide high quality health care services to uninsured and underserved patients in Durham, NC and surrounding areas.

Health
6
Virginia B Andes Volunteer Community Clinic Inc

Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county

Health
7
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
8
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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9
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
10
Grace Clinic of Yadkin Valley

Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.

Human Services
11
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
12
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Bridge Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is ChemoCars Inc. 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 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%0%<5yr20%10%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr12%43%20–35yr8%14%35–55yr8%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%0%<5yr20%5%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr12%50%20–35yr8%11%35–55yr8%14%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
22%
1,394/6,472

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.

05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Care Ring Inc — $55,833 · HealthCare Ring IncMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $52,000 · HealthMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINICSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $37,000 · HealthSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INCTeen Health Connection Inc — $28,000 · HealthTeen Health Connection IncVISION TO LEARN — $25,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARNDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $25,000 · HealthDilworth Center for Chemical DependencyPats Place Child Advocacy Center — $20,000 · HealthPats Place Child Advocacy CenterCHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $10,000 · HealthCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $7,700 · HealthMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist — $33,333 · Human ServicesMedAssist of Mecklen…Right Moves for Youth Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesRight Moves for Yout…YOUTH VILLAGES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCFoster Village Charlotte — $15,000 · Human ServicesFoster Village Charl…THE RELATIVES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INCCarolina Refugee Resettlement Agency Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesCarolina Refugee Res…VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $25,000 · OtherVETERANS BRIDGE H…Crittenton of NC — $25,000 · OtherCrittenton of NCMental Health Association — $23,333 · OtherMental Health Ass…SAMARITAN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $15,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSE I…Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc — $5,600 · OtherYoung Womens Chri…CAMINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCAMINO COMMU…Bee Mighty — $20,000 · PhilanthropyBee MightyPRESENT AGE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 · ReligionPRESENT A…UrbanPromise Charlotte — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentSamaritan House Inc — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$270,533Human Services$111,333Other$93,933Philanthropy$70,000Religion$50,000Youth Development$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCare Ring Inc — $55,833 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $52,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPRESENT AGE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $37,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist — $33,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc — $28,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFoster Village Charlotte — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUrbanPromise Charlotte — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCarolina Refugee Resettlement Agency Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChemoCars Inc — $7,700 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc — $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Leon Levine Found…United Way of Greater…The Presbyterian Hosp…Duke Energy FoundationMerancas Foundation I…Albemarle FoundationPhilip L Van Every Fo…The Cannon Foundation…St Peters Hospital Fo…Presbyterian Hospital…The Duke Endowment
Foundation for the CarolinasNC41.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · St Peters Hospital Foundation Inc · Presbyterian Hospital Foundation · The Duke Endowment

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 Healthy Charlotte Alliance 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Healthy Charlotte Alliance Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Healthy Charlotte Alliance 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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