· Private foundation
Lilian E and Earl a Bettinger Charitable
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FNDN INC | $171,825 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $103,095 |
| NEW DIRECTION MINISTRIES | $103,095 |
| CAROLINA FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION | $103,095 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS | $68,730 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $34,365 |
| MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA | $34,365 |
| LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $34,365 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $34,365 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
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, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $295k · revenue +22%
- MWMYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $159k · revenue +11%
- FHFoothills Humane Society Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- CFCarolina Foothills Foundationone grant, 2025 · $103k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2025 · $3k
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 organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…
To provide fire services to the citizens of rolesville nc
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Nc forestry association ensures healthy, productive, and sustainable forests.
Provide firefighting, ambulance and rescue services in the Barnardsville area of Buncombe County.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
To provide fire, rescue and emergency medical services to the French Broad fire district of Buncombe County, North Carolina.
To provide financial assistance to families and members of the nc national guard who are experiencing financial hardships due to military deployments and other emergencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Direction Ministries Incorporated. 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 12 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 Polk County Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Foothills Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.
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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 Lilian E and Earl a Bettinger Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.