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Material Handling Industry

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$610k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$312k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$839kPublic Safety & Disaster$240kScience & Tech$168kHuman Services$52kInternational$30kFood & Nutrition$21kYouth Development$18k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $523,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $610,452 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,152 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $205k
  • $250k+1 grant · $312k
$205,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$312,300
AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK$205,000
QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–20, $32k) 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.

area typical 11%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $26k → 10%SAFEALLIANCE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
PA
WV
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$954k · 5 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$954k
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+83%

Still filing today

100%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • MH
    MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $682k · revenue +124% · 45% of their budget
  • AL
    AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +356%
  • SH
    Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $90k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +99%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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.

1
University Foundation
2
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc

The corporation has been organized to engage in activities and pursuits which contribute to the educational, research, and service functions of georgia state university. thus, the corporation will attempt to secure gifts, contributions,…

Education
3
The Foundation for Nc a&T State University

The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate loyalty and tradition, and foster mutually beneficial lifelong relationships between the University, alumni, students and friends of the Aggie Family

4
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

5
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
6
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
7
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
8
Tennessee State University Foundation

To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.

Education
9
South Carolina Research Foundation

the south carolina research foundation operates for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina. These activities include but are not limited to promoting, encouraging, and aiding scientific research…

10
Foundation of the University of North Carolina At Charlotte

The foundation of unc charlotte receives contributions to promote and develop the academic and educational purpose of unc charlotte by providing support for operations, educational programs, and scholarships for the university and its…

11
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
12
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation of the State University of New York At Binghamton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $681,550 · OtherMATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY+4 more — $53,050 · Other+4 moreAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK — $240,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN LOGISTICS A…INDUSTRIAL TRUCK STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationTEXAS STATE U…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationAUBURN UNIVER…The Penn State Research Foundation — $22,500 · EducationThe Penn Stat…FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $17,500 · EducationFOUNDATION OF…QUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE INC — $11,900 · EducationQUEEN CITY RO…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $26,350 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc — $5,200 · Human ServicesSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc — $11,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 · InternationalHOPE MATCH — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$874,600Public Safety & Disaster$250,000Education$159,400Human Services$31,550Food & Nutrition$21,000International$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $681,550 over 8y, 45% of budgetAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK — $240,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $26,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRock Hill School District Foundation Inc — $25,450 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN CITY ROBOTICS ALLIANCE INC — $11,900 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDUSTRIAL TRUCK STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Material Handling Industry 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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