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Mid-Atlantic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY | $12,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY C | $5,000 |
| GOLD CITY HOUSE OF MUSIC | $4,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GOLDSBORO SCHOOL OF BALLET | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| CENTER STAGE THEATER | $1,190 |
| WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| UNC PRESS | $1,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE NORTH CAROLINA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $752) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 24 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +18%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +0%
- TPTHE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TMTHE MUSIC THEATREone grant, 2018 · $3k
- WSWAYNE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2019 · $2k
- ECEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $2k
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 preserve and share local history
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
To operate a charter school in north carolina
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
To build public awareness of and provide funding to the nc museum of history.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
To provide the community of waynesboro a viable place where its history can be preserved and celebrated for generations to come.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.
To strengthen the cultural vitality of the region and cultivate musical theatre appreciation by producing outstanding professional broadway musicals and developing the next generation of artists through youth training, performance, and…
Provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…
To preserve a cinema theatre in Waynesboro as a crucial component of a vibrant downtown and overall community quality of life. Our goal is to renovate the existing closed theater into an attractive high quality facility which can be leased…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 120 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 UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GOLDSBORO DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE THEATRE ↗
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: Borden Foundation · The Borden Fund Inc · M & J Foundation Inc · R a Bryan Foundation Inc · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Southern Bank Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · E J Pope & Son Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle 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 Mid-Atlantic 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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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