· Public charity
Mecklenburg Bar Foundation
To advance public understanding and respect for the rule of law and the role of the legal profession; to promote the highest ideals of professionalism, public service and access to the legal system; and to support the charitable and educational goals of the 26th Judicial District Bar and Mecklenburg Bar Association.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $40,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAIN | $10,000 |
| National Alliance on Mental I | $10,000 |
| Matthews Help 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 (FY17–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +49% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 33% 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
- SASafe Alliance Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +164%
- PPPats Place Child Advocacy Center4× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +49%
- IHInternational House of Metrolina Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $41k · revenue +57%
Funded once
Crisis Assistance Ministrygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +43%
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -56%- MAMETROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +20%
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.
Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.
The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
CRRA provides resettlement services to refugees and asylees who faced violence, persecution, and repression in their native countries in order for them to become self-sufficient and contributing members of society.
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…
Helping homeless men by providing a safe shelter and meeting their basic needs as well as address barriers related to homelessness and self-sufficiency and helping homeless men to obtain and maintain more appropriate housing.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bags of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds International House of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEWS HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds The Havens Inc ↗
- Who funds Larry Kings Clubhouse Childrens Play and Care Center ↗
- Who funds RAIN Inc ↗
- Who funds Promise Resource Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BAGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Latin American Coalition ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds STILL HOPE ENRICHMENT AGENCY ↗
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: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Synchrony Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gambrell 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 Mecklenburg Bar 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.