· Private foundation
McLeod Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CLAYTON | $35,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC | $18,500 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CLAYTON AREA MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| JOHNSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HARBOR INC | $2,500 |
| ICHOOSE PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -58% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TBTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +25%
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +89%
MEREDITH COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FBFirst Baptist Churchone grant, 2020 · $3k
- JCJordan Centerone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CYCAROLINA YOUTH THEATREone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -98%
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.
The purpose of methodist university is to provide an undergraduate and graduate education firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition, that nurtures moral values & ethical decision-making; to provide distinctive professional & graduate…
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Marymount is a nationally ranked comprehensive catholic university, guided by the traditions of the religious of the sacred heart of mary, that emphasizes intellectual curiosity, service to others, and a global perspective. a marymount…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds FUQUAY VARINA EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds MILITARY MISSIONS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST COLLEGE BIRTHPLACE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE UGANDA ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 McLeod 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.