· Private foundation
Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $710k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| On Eagles Wings Ministries | $130,000 |
| Salvation Army of Mecklenburg County | $100,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $100,000 |
| Families Forward Charlotte | $75,000 |
| American Red Cross | $67,000 |
| Heart Math Tutoring | $60,000 |
| Myers Park United Methodist Church | $60,000 |
| The Relatives | $60,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $58,000 |
| YWCA Central Carolinas | $40,000 |
| Council for Children's Rights | $35,000 |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic | $35,000 |
| Thompson Child Family Focus | $25,000 |
| Brookstone Schools | $25,000 |
| The Umbrella Center | $25,000 |
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, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- FOFields of Hope8× · 2017–2024 · $840k · revenue +129%
- HMHeart Math Tutoring Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +531%
- TRTHE RELATIVES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- SASalvation Army of Greater Charlotteone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SASalvation Army Center for Hope Shelterone grant, 2020 · $70k
- VBVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +347%
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Guided by the experiences of those living with mental health conditions and rooted in equity, NAMI Charlotte provides advocacy, education, support and connections to resources so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness…
Operation of a public charter school.
To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.
Foster Village Charlotte creates connection with dignity for children and families experiencing foster care by meeting urgent needs, providing educational and emotional support, and advocating as a collective community voice for children.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
Dedicated to providing high quality residential and community services to individuals with developmental and other disabilities in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.
Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Claire's Army Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 Fields of Hope ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Families Forward Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Claire's Army Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Center of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds Allegro Foundation 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Ta Piedmont Club Foundation Pcf · Dowd Foundation Inc · Ally Charitable 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 Lucille P & Edward C Giles 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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