· Private foundation
James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $524k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $655k
- $250k+2 grants · $652k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $391,457 |
| SPCC FOUNDATION INC | $260,255 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF UNION COUNTY | $100,000 |
| SAFER COMMUNITIES MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| FEED MY LAMBS INC | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING UNION COUNTY | $75,000 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $73,822 |
| NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $51,611 |
| FOOD FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-UNION COUNTY CHAPTER | $45,000 |
| HEALTHQUEST OF UNION COUNTY | $40,000 |
| ARBORBROOK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| COMMON HEART | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
62 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +26%
- UCUNION-ANSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMA7× · 2017–2024 · $990k · revenue +29%
- CHCommunity Health Services of Union County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- SPSOUTH PEIDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $250k
- UCUnion County Community Arts Council Incone grant, 2019 · $201k · revenue -8% · 57% of their budget
- UAUNION ANSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $124k
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 mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
To show the love of christ to those experiencing financial crises through basic needs assistance.
Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.
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…
Provide total quality and accessible community oriented health care
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Arbor acres, an affiliate ministry of the united methodist church, serves senior adults through facilities and programs that enhance opportunity for security, contentment and life with meaning and purpose.
Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union County Community Arts Council Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 10. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 84 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 WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNION-ANSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMA ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Shelter ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHQUEST OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNION SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KATAWBA VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ANSON COUNTY HOMES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS REENTRY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Union County Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds NOVANT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WINGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc · Yost Elizabeth B Tr Uwo · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Alice Smith Marsh Charitable Trust · Westport Fund · Smith Gen Wa Tr Uw - Item Xxii
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 James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.