· Private foundation
Live Love Serve Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAPOR MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION | $50,000 |
| CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SEED TO TABLE OREGON | $30,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $25,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNCC INC | $25,000 |
| MECKLENBURG AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| SEED TO TABLE OREGON | $20,000 |
| COOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER | $18,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| APPLIED LEADERSHIP COACHING LLC | $5,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| SETON HALL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
72 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- VMVapor Ministries Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $555k · revenue +86%
- TCThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview6× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +142%
- HFHopeWay Foundation2× · 2019–2020 · $251k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $63k · revenue +122%
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 unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
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…
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Javesca Feeds purpose is to raise awareness and provide relief to help end hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the U.S. and around the world by connecting individual and corporate funding with front-line human relief…
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Benevolence farm seeks to cultivate leadership, promote sustainable livelihoods, and reap structural change with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system in north carolina.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is World Vets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 164 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 Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Black Leadership Alliance ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SEED TO TABLE OREGON ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN WEEKEND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR AMERICAN INTERIORS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Community Building Initiative ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
- Who funds A Better World Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Promising Pages Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP CAROLINAS ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · C D Spangler Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Servant 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 Live Love Serve 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- 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.
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