How much does Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation give?

Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $430,132 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Education (17%), Health (9%).

Who are Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ($601k), Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated ($451k), Fathers Forever ($228k).

Does Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.

Where is Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation based?

Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation is based in NC.

Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation

Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$430k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$87k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$564kHealth$298kReligion$271kYouth Development$163kEnvironment$141kHousing & Shelter$103kRecreation & Sports$58kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $73k
$10k–50k14 grants · $270k
$50k–250k1 grant · $87k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP	$87,302
FATHER'S FOREVER	$35,000
OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL BSA	$30,000
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH	$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	$30,000
HEYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY	$25,000
BAPTISTS ON MISSION	$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 GREENSBORO	$10,000
PRISON ALLIANCE	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE	$10,000
ELON UNIVERSITY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.8M · 52 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+15%

Still filing today

60%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TY
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
3× · 2017–2019 · $601k · revenue +51%
BC
BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED
4× · 2017–2020 · $451k · revenue +66%
FF
Fathers Forever
6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +367%

Funded once

TL
TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k
HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue -9%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $30k

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.

04Its field

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.

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services

Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter

Wake County Smart Start Inc

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.

Education

Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children

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.

Philanthropy

Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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Alamance Community College Foundation

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.

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Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

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.

Human Services

Nc State American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Org

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.

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North Carolina Chamber

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…

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Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated; 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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 129 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/68

Grantees still filing

50/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$1,065,000Other$1,001,574Religion$476,000Education$325,171Health$295,250Environment$141,000Housing & Shelter$52,500

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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC46.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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