· Private foundation
Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $51,766 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER PITT COUNTY | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK - CENTRAL & EASTERN NC | $25,000 |
| FEED YOUR NEIGHBOR FOOD PANTRY | $22,600 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $21,766 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL PLAIN | $21,766 |
| CARENET COUNSELING EAST | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| STRAIGHTWAY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,652 |
| GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC | $15,731 |
| HOPE OF GLORY MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEMS | $15,000 |
| EMERGE GALLERY & ART CENTER | $14,000 |
| DH CONLEY HIGH SCHOOL BANDS | $13,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- HOHope of Glory Ministries Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +43%
- COChurches Outreach Network2× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +20%
- CCCARENET COUNSELING EAST4× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PCPITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -19%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PITT COone grant, 2023 · $75k
- HBH B SUGG COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $42k · revenue -73%
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 specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
Developing and connecting resources to assist and advocate for those impacted by eating disorders.
To serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness by providing safe housing and assisting them in developing a long-term plan that leads to self-sufficiency.
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
Build thriving communities by protecting and renewing our history and architectural treasures.
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moonbeams and Miracles Therapeutic Horsemanship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 42 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 PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Hope of Glory Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Churches Outreach Network ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING EAST ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds GRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Emerge Gallery Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds H B SUGG COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ACES FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Operation Sunshine Inc ↗
- Who funds Lives of Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Evergreen of Greenville Inc ↗
- Who funds Moonbeams and Miracles Therapeutic Horsemanship ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LEARNING CENTER ↗
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: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · James J & Mamie Richardson Perkins Memorial Fund - C/O Bank of America · Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Women for Women · Bill and Faye Stallings Family Foundation · United Way of Pitt County Inc · Dennis & Jennie Hendrix 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 Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust 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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