· Private foundation
Lonnie & Carol Poole Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $87,302 |
| FATHER'S FOREVER | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $30,000 |
| TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL BSA | $30,000 |
| BAPTISTS ON MISSION | $25,000 |
| HEYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| MOUNT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| NC BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $10,000 |
| PRISON ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 17 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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)3× · 2017–2019 · $601k · revenue +52%
- BCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED4× · 2017–2020 · $451k · revenue +66%
- FFFathers Forever6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +367%
Funded once
- TLTAMMY LYNN CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
HEALING TRANSITIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue -9%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
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 Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
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,…
The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.
Operation of a public charter school.
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.
To improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. to accomplish this mission, we will build and change the state's labor movement.
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…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Cape Fear Council Boy Scouts of America. 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 37 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) — 6% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 129 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 The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Fathers Forever ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELS4HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PASSAGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WE CARE WSMGA ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Seby B Jones Family Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family 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 Lonnie & Carol Poole Family 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.
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