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Helmut and Carmen Weisser Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Health$10kHuman Services$8kEducation$5kAnimals$5kCrime & Legal$5kReligion$5kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB$2,500
NEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC$2,500
RHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
HOPE CLINIC$2,500
NEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER$2,500
THE MERROW FOUNDATION$2,500
BIKE BOX PROJECT$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 20% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER: $3k → 12%RHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%HOPE CLINIC: $3k → 16%TEH FILLING STATION: $3k → 17%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $3k → 20%THE MERROW FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%ST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%PRIME TIME: $3k → 16%CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB: $3k → 12%RIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%MERCI CLINIC: $3k → 14%BIKE BOX PROJECT: $3k → 14%COLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 14%CRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $3k → 14%SOUND RIVERS: $3k → 14%CRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%NEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 14%CRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTER: $3k → 14%EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%NEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC: $3k → 14%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.

03Your 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
Township Seven Ems Inc

Provide emergency medical services to residents and businesses of township 7 and the surrounding areas of craven county, north carolina

Education
2
Rift Valley Wildlife Clinics

A not for profit organization dedicated to improving the welfare of domestic animals and wildlife

Animals
3
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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4
Collie Rescue of the Carolinas

Endangered animal rescue and adoption

Animals
5
Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue Inc aka Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue aka Gcwr

Care of injured and orphaned wild animals

Animals
6
Animal Protection League of Mercer
Animals
7
Richardsons Rescue

Richardsons Rescue is a non-profit, no kill 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the care, rehabilitation and adoption of domestic cats. Staffed by volunteers, our mission is to: Remove animals from homeless situations, provide medical care…

Animals
8
Humane Society of Eastern Carolina

to find forever homes for unwanted animals

Animals
9
Friends of Bergen County Animal Shelter T/a Focas

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
10
Rescue Me Animal Advocacy

Rescue animals

Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Person County Rescue Squad

Emergency rescue and first aid

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Merrow Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY INC — $2,500 · OtherBRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY INCNEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL — $2,500 · OtherNEW BERN HIGH SCHOOLCRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT — $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 · OtherCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETYCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL — $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCILST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — $2,500 · OtherST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRIME TIME — $2,500 · OtherPRIME TIMEEBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $2,500 · OtherEBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTER — $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTERCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB — $2,500 · OtherCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHABRIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENT — $2,500 · OtherRIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENTMERCI CLINIC INC — $2,500 · HealthMERCI CLINI…HOPE CLINIC — $2,500 · HealthHOPE CLINICMERROW FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Science & TechNEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUND RIVERS INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentRHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC — $2,500 · AnimalsBIKE BOX PROJECT — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$30,000Health$5,000Science & Tech$2,500Youth Development$2,500Environment$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Animals$2,500Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERCI CLINIC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERROW FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 69% of budgetHOPE CLINIC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIKE BOX PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Harold H Bate Fou…North Carolina Commun…Carolinaeast Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Harold H Bate Foundation IncNC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolinaeast Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Helmut and Carmen Weisser 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 20 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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