· Private foundation
Mary E Carnrick Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING | $20,000 |
| PHILIPS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| MOTHERS OF MURDERED OFFSPRING | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTE NEUROSCIENCE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY CENTER OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| INNER VISION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| IN REACH | $10,000 |
| THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
46 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +65%- CFCharlotte Family Housing7× · 2017–2023 · $240k · revenue +6%
InReach7× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- RCRALLY CHARLOTTE6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue -76%
- CHCHARLOTTE HEALTCARE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $3k
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated4× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +151%
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.
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
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.
To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
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…
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,…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Project Life. 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.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds InReach ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARE TO SHARE OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LIZ MURRAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INNERVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Life ↗
- Who funds Friendship Trays Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ONE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWER Scholarship Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
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 · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ta Piedmont Club Foundation Pcf · Ncfibarnhardt Foundation · Dowd 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 Mary E Carnrick 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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