· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (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 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 +62% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you 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
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
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)4× · 2019–2022 · $72k · revenue +41%
- TUThe Unit Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue ×67
- 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
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 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) and the most unlike its peers is Northeast Franklin Revitalization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Live Oak 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.