· Private foundation
Live Oak Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS ANGLICAN CHURCH | $225,000 |
| OUTREACH MISSION | $50,000 |
| HELPING HAND | $8,255 |
| THE UNIT FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| PAWLEYS ISLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| PBS NORTH CAROLINA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)4× · 2019–2022 · $72k · revenue +40%
- TUThe Unit Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue ×98
- LCLEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- MPMISSION PAWLEYS INCone grant, 2019 · $26k
- LCLEE COUNTY YOUNG LIFEone grant, 2019 · $7k
- FOFRIENDS OF NC MARITIME MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
To foster and promote christian stewardship and for promoting and providing support to the ministries in north carolina affiliated with or consistent with the convention of original free will baptists and other charitable, education,…
Non-denominational church with the mission of impacting the city of raleigh, durham and the triangle region of north carolina with the gospel of jesus christ, raising up leaders and ministering to the poor of our city.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
The corporation's primary purpose include: (1) making scholarship grants to qualified residents of north carolina; (2) making funds available to any person or entity in order to educate the public regarding financial literacy, banking and…
Our mission is to accelerate investment in clean and efficient energy solutions and increase climate resilience in north and south carolina, particularly to the benefit of underserved populations.
The corporation makes distributions to or for christian churches, ministries, and other charities
To advance wilson college of textiles through engagement, partnership and philanthropy. as a charitable organization, the foundation supports the college and dean of the college and such support shall include but is not limited to…
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONSEQUENTIAL CHRISTIANITY ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds The Unit Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST FRANKLIN REVITALIZATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Live Oak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Live Oak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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