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Hopestar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$803kHealth$158kPhilanthropy$152kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$30kCommunity Improvement$29kCrime & Legal$16kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTHCONNECT ONE$20,000
NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH$20,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$14,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
TEEN HEALTH CONNECTION$1,010
NC CHILD$1,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$513
FOUNDATION NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$500
FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC$500
Individual grant recipient$250
MINT HILL FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU$100
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 (FY24–24, $284) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE SPACE NC: $100 → 11%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $84 → 16%LOAVES AND FISHES: $100 → 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.
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 8 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
97

Total granted

$53k
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +51%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +294%
  • TH
    Teen Health Connection Inc
    2× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $59k · revenue +195%
  • FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $52k
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
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
2
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

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

—
4
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
5
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc

To foster and accelerate the collective impact of hospitals, health systems and community partners to improve the health of north carolinians.

Health
6
Wnc Health Network Inc

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

Health
7
Community Care of North Carolina Inc

To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.

Health
8
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
9
National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health
10
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
11
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
12
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nantucket Film Foundation Inc. 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

57 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. 57 of the 116 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: $55,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATIONIndividual grant recipient: $51,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRINGING YOU EXCELLENCE (B.Y.E.) LLC/COMMUNITY Resilience Project: $25,000 · OtherBRINGING YOU EXCELLENCE (B.Y.E.) LLC/COMMUNITY Resil…HEALTHCONNECT ONE (NURTURE NC): $23,500 · OtherHEALTHCONNECT ONE (NURTURE NC)CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $22,500 · OtherCRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIESNC Office of State Budget & Management: $20,000 · OtherNC Office of State Budget & ManagementTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $14,185 · OtherNC PHILANTHROPY LIAISON (NC OSP): $10,000 · Other+70 more: $60,273 · Other+70 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $134,400 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINA…United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $15,326 · PhilanthropyUnited Jewish Charities of …+3 more: $650 · PhilanthropyATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $58,800 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUND…NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH: $20,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA ALLI…HEALTHCONNECT ONE: $20,000 · HealthHEALTHCONNECT ONE+6 more: $7,660 · Health+6 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $18,575 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $10,720 · EducationTHE NEW HAM…The Center For Native Health Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Center …NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationNORTH CAROL…STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,350 · EducationSTANLY COMM…CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,650 · EducationCHARLOTTE M…NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 · Education+5 more: $5,558 · Education+5 moreINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $6,000 · Social ScienceWomens Impact Fund: $1,310 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $500 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Housing: $500 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc: $500 · Human ServicesREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $400 · Human Services+3 more: $284 · Human ServicesThe Junior League of Charlotte Inc: $1,000 · Community ImprovementJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $600 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $513 · Community Improvement
Other$281,958Philanthropy$150,376Health$106,460Education$59,853Social Science$6,000Human Services$3,494Community Improvement$2,113

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $134,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTHCONNECT ONE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $18,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $15,326 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $10,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Native Health Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,350 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc: $2,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Impact Fund: $1,310 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Charlotte Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT HILL FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE SPACE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $100 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.

The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationThe Marc & Mattye Sil…The Presbyterian Hosp…Merancas Foundation I…The Duke EndowmentThe Cannon Foundation…The Eleanor H Barnhar…Foundation for the Ch…Eddie and Jo Allison …
The Leon Levine FoundationNC35.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation 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 Hopestar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hopestar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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