How much did MARTHA & SPENCER LOVE FDTN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MARTHA & SPENCER LOVE FDTN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

justice

2020

—

2021

north

2022

—

2023

—

2024

charlotte

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k9 grants · $120k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL$25,000
THE NEST ACADEMY INC$15,000
MANNA FOOD BANK INC$15,000
PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC$15,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$10,000
ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC$10,000
5 STEPS TO FIVE INC$10,000
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - CHARLOTTE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION$10,000
CHARLOTTE FILM SOCIETY$5,000
EVOLUTIONARY AQUATICS$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$537k · 15 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$537k

$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+23%

Still filing today

73%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
6× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +24%
TC
THE CARTER CENTER INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +25%
YEAR UP
2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +1%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NC SCHOOL OF THE
one grant, 2021 · $35k
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL
one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -8%
FF
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech

New North Carolina Project Action First

The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.

Civil Rights

United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc

United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions. at united way, we find fresh solutions to solveour regions most urgent…

Philanthropy

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Established in 1980, the food bank of central & eastern north carolina is among the largest anti-hunger organizations in the united states. we work every day to provide food to people in need while advancing long-term solutions to end…

Food & Nutrition

New York Restoration Project

To transform underserved communities by creating a greener, more sustainable new york city.

Environment

North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the nc zoo society is to champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future. the nc zoo society is your bridge to more than a zoo visit. we make you a partner in the zoo's global…

Animals

United States Endowment for Forestry

To advance positive change for the nation's working forests and forest-reliant communities

Environment

Forward Justice

Forward justice is a nonpartisan law policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial social and economic justice.

Crime & Legal

Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educati onal and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for publi c policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services

Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners' (cccp) aspiration is for charlotte's center city to be the most thriving, inclusive, memorable, sustainable, resilient, and beloved place that is a leading force for a healthy regional economy and quality of…

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Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carter Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Archbold Expeditions Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,528

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.

05the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

27/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$611,166Education$157,000Environment$87,000Human Services$71,000International$60,000Crime & Legal$35,000Philanthropy$20,000

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.

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organisation MARTHA & SPENCER LOVE FDTN 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EVOLUTIONARY AQUATICS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862312803 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EVOLUTIONARY AQUATICS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn?

Find your warmest path to Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARTHA & SPENCER LOVE FDTN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn?

More from the funding graph

MARTHA & SPENCER LOVE FDTN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn?

More from the funding graph