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Mecklenburg Partnership for Children
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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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k6 grants · $997k
- $250k+8 grants · $24M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MECKLENBURG COUNTY | $19,916,877 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES | $1,299,930 |
| CMS | $500,000 |
| MECK CO HEALTH DEPT | $439,764 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $436,700 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES | $339,938 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $322,033 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES | $309,656 |
| CARE RING INC | $226,741 |
| CHARLOTTE SPEECH & HEARING | $199,820 |
| CHARLOTTE BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL | $182,370 |
| FREEDOM COMMUNITIES | $162,001 |
| THE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE | $121,407 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES | $104,855 |
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, $4.2M) 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 +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $4.1M · revenue +514%
- CBCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +221%
- CRCare Ring Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +165%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Incone grant, 2023 · $220k · revenue +11%
- QCQUEEN CITY COCOA BEANS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -49%
- WFWTVI FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +18%
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.
To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…
The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…
The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.
"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."
The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…
To promote equitable access to quality, comprehensive early childhood development and education in response to the needs of our community.
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
The Partnership effectively utilizes a multitude of resources to ensure that Johnston's youngest residents and their families receive educational, health, and emotional support services, preparing children for lifelong success.
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…
When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wtvi 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD PRESCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL EQUITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY COCOA BEANS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WTVI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project 658 Inc ↗
- Who funds Promising Pages Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Childcare & Center Enrichment Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Womens Impact Fund · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Speedway Children's Charities · Truist Foundation Inc · The Perper Family Foundation · The Cannon 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 Mecklenburg Partnership for Children 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.