· Private foundation
Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $193k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC | $45,000 |
| TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $37,000 |
| LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| ROWAN-SALISBURY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $25,800 |
| ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEXT GENERATION SPORTS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN INC | $25,000 |
| DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS | $20,000 |
| HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $18,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +309%
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +31%
Davidson College5× · 2019–2024 · $372k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DADAVIDSON ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
- COCOGNITION OF DAVIE COUNTY INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -4%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county
Operation of a public charter school
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Promoting, enhancing and managing the development of the commercial, business, economic, residential, civic, and historical development of downtown salisbury, north carolina.
To make a compelling impact on Robeson County families by collaborating with early childhood agencies to support programs that measurably develop young children and their caregivers for success.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Rowan County and the most unlike its peers is Rowan Idea Center Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 116 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 CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
- Who funds A STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Rowan County Crosby Scholars Community Partnership ↗
- Who funds Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT GENERATION ACADEMY-SALISBURY ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Davie County ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES ROWAN ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HALL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAVIE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
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 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · Rowan County United Way Inc · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · Davie Community Foundation Inc · Reynolds American 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 Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc 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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