· Private foundation
Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $750k
- $250k+1 grant · $517k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC CHARLOTTE | $516,500 |
| SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL | $165,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $150,000 |
| DAVIE COUNTY SCHOOLS | $103,500 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS | $81,500 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT | $50,000 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $45,150 |
| SMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY | $34,000 |
| DAVIE COUNTY RECREATION AND PARKS | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PLATEAU | $20,000 |
| HILL CENTER | $15,000 |
| POWER CROSS | $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 (FY20–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
53 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- TATHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $880k · revenue +53%
- BSBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County5× · 2020–2024 · $542k · revenue +162%
- SCSummit Charter School4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- NYNCSU - YADKIN PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2020 · $277k
- NENC EDUICATION CORPSone grant, 2021 · $100k
- NLNYU LANGONE VACCINE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $100k
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 mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Carolina prep is a school for preschool through primary formed to build a diverse, positive, stimulating learning environment which values excellence in academics, leadership, and service.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
Support of member charter schools in north carolina
North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…
Operation of a public charter school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Helps Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Get in the Game. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 106 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 THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONED ↗
- Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC ↗
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 · Duke Energy Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The Lovett Foundation · Davie Community 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 Mebane Charitable Foundation 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.
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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