· Public charity
Hospice Cleveland County Foundation
The mission of the Foundation is to strive to maintain the success of the hospice tradition in Cleveland County by supporting efforts to help people lead healthy, productive lives and experience peaceful, dignified deaths.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $867,215 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $898,235 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,020 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $537k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hospice of Cleveland County | $149,500 |
| Washington Outreach Ministry | $125,000 |
| Cleveland County Schools Edu | $77,500 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Clevelan | $75,000 |
| Inter-Faith Alliance Inc DBA | $60,000 |
| Cleveland Community College | $50,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Cle | $43,970 |
| Community Math Academy Inc | $35,000 |
| Changers Community Developmen | $30,840 |
| Cleveland Community Cares dba | $25,000 |
| Baptist State Convention of N | $25,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America - Piedm | $25,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity in Cleve | $22,500 |
| Destination Cleveland County | $18,750 |
| Shelby Rotary Breakfast Club | $17,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $796k · revenue +49%
- CCCleveland County Schools Educational Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $262k · revenue +40% · 25% of their budget
- LELife Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $253k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FKFeeding Kids Cleveland County Incone grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +5% · 58% of their budget
- MCMT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBY INCone grant, 2022 · $60k
- CCCleveland County Public Healtone grant, 2021 · $53k
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.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
Creating a link between parents, providers, and the community to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality child care.
Develop single and multi-family affordable housing for low to moderate income indviduals and families and to qualify low and moderate income level individuals
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
Clarke County Youth Basketball provides a basketball league for local youth. The league is run by volunteers and has teams for kids ages 6-14.
Our mission is to be the trusted provider of innovative real estate solutions for our members, our customers, and our community both today and tomorrow.
To support, supplement, enhance and enrich hospital facilities, programs, and services in Cleveland county and related programs designed to improve the health and wellness of the citizens of Cleveland county.
The mission of the Foundation is to strive to maintain the success of the hospice tradition in Cleveland County by supporting efforts to help people lead healthy, productive lives and experience peaceful, dignified deaths. We seek to…
To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
The Cleveland County Arts Council will ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate in programs and activities that will enrich cultural life. This is accomplished through visual art exhibits, classes, festivals and other events.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County and the most unlike its peers is Kingston Community Organization for Community Concerns 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 HOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity in Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Feeding Kids Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANGERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Destination Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COMMUNITY CARES ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Kings Mountain Rotary Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kingston Community Organization for Community Concerns Inc ↗
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: Dover Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · United Way of Cleveland County Inc · The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · The Neisler Foundation TUA · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Hospice Cleveland County 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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