· Public charity
Hope at the Lake Foundation
Hope at the lake is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of our lake norman neighbors in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $171,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELCOME HOME VETERANS | $30,000 |
| DOVE HOUSE | $30,000 |
| PIEDMONT VETERANS ASSISTANCE COUNCI | $30,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $30,000 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| PHAROS PARENTING | $8,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MAMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +62%
- WHWELCOME HOME VETERANS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue -25%
- DHDOVE HOUSE2× · 2024–2025 · $40k
Funded once
- HOHope of Mooresville Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- HRHEALTH REACHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- FFEEDNCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -41%
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.
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Food distribution to the needy
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
Food pantry
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
Our mission is to provide free resources to low income and no income families,senior and homeless population within the 7 counties NC- Vance Granville,Franklin,Warren,Wake,Raliegh ,Durham and Halifax communities.
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Charitable nonprofit providing assistance to individuals in need in Alamance County
To provide meals and material needs for the homeless
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont Veterans Assistance Counci and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT VETERANS ASSISTANCE COUNCI ↗
- Who funds Hope of Mooresville Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds Food For Days ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Iredell ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HEARTS ↗
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: Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation · Darrell and Patricia Steagall Family Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · Giving With Grace Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hope at the Lake Foundation 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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