· Public charity
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc
To serve the elderly, frail, disabled, convalescing & others who can't provide proper nutrition for themselves.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBEMARLE COMMISSION | $80,000 |
| Lumber River Council of Governments | $20,000 |
| Northampton Co Health Dept | $10,000 |
| Lenoir Co Council on Aging | $10,000 |
| Person Co Senior Center | $10,000 |
| Jackson Co Dept on Aging | $10,000 |
| Graham Co Senior Center | $10,000 |
| Martin Co Dept on Aging | $10,000 |
| Bladen Co Division of Aging | $10,000 |
| County of Montgomery | $10,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Rocky Mount Inc | $10,000 |
| Cherokee County Senior Services | $10,000 |
| Macon County Senior Services | $10,000 |
| Columbus Co Dept of Aging | $10,000 |
| Ashe Services for Aging | $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 (FY20–21, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 17% 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 +10% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LCLENOIR COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +10%
- RKREGION K COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORPORATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +10%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SOState of Franklin Health Councilone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%
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.
Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.
Senior citizen programs through the area agency on aging which provides a center, services, congregate meals and home delivery meals.
To promote the mental social and physical welfare of seniors in Union County SC. To operate senior centers providing group dining home delivered meals transportation homemaker services and material support to seniors 60 and older.
Provides senior center and congregate and home delivered meals, homemaker services allowing seniors to remain in their homes.
Provision of various services for the elderly and transportation services for the citizens of newberry county.
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
To provide services and resources to the aged citizens of kosciusko county indiana and surrounding areas including transportation, mobile meals, and senior activities to improve quality of life
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
A federally designated Area Agency on Aging whose mission is to bring independence enhancing supportive services to the 60+ population and their caregivers in our 17 county-wide service area.
The organization operates a senior citizen's center in greenbrier county west virgnia. senior citizens are provided with transportation, nutrition, in-home care and other personal and social services.
Provide transportation, meals, activities and other services to the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghany County Council On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery County Council On a Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 32 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 LENOIR COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds REGION K COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL ON A INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC ↗
- Who funds YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ASHE SERVICES FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds State of Franklin Health Council ↗
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: The Golden Leaf Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · East Carolina Health · American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Meals on Wheels of Durham 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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