· Private foundation
Loweth-Alvord 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $6,500 |
| The Episcopal Church of Connecticut | $5,000 |
| Groton Open Space Association | $4,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army of Wilmington NC | $2,500 |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $2,500 |
| West End House Camp | $2,000 |
| Hartwick College | $2,000 |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $1,500 |
| North Carolina Community Foundation | $1,500 |
| BSA Cape Fear Council | $1,200 |
| Safe Futures Inc | $1,000 |
| Community Counseling Center | $1,000 |
| Wilmington Symphony Orchestra | $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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +39%- GSGROTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +12%
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +20%- WKWILMINGTON KIWANIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 73 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds GROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds JUNE 10 INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE KID FUND INC ↗
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: The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Loweth-Alvord 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Groton Open Space Association Inc — 50% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.