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Norman & Rose Shamberg Foundation at a glance

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Norman & Rose Shamberg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$124kEducation$117kReligion$58kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$2kHuman Services$1kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,666
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PBS NORTH CAROLINA$20,666
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $250 → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS HOMES OF NC: $500 → 21%DIAPER TRAIN: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 12 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$277k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +97%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +44%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +50%
  • P
    PBS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • T
    TLC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
2
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
3
Nc Budget & Tax Center

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…

Civil Rights
4
Secu Family House At Unc Hospitals

Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.

Health
5
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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6
Chamber Music Raleigh Inc

To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…

Arts & Culture
7
Wake County Smart Start Inc

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.

Education
8
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…

Philanthropy
9
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
10
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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11
Nc State American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Org

To improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. to accomplish this mission, we will build and change the state's labor movement.

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12
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Episcopal Relief and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $56,250 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $43,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMUHLENBERG FUND: $36,000 · OtherMUHLENBERG FUNDPBS NORTH CAROLINA: $20,666 · OtherPBS NORTH CAROLINA+20 more: $25,900 · Other+20 moreNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $65,170 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY F…NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY IN…COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $5,400 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INCFRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $36,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1,750 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $450 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $500 · Human ServicesDIAPER TRAIN: $500 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $250 · Human Services
Other$181,816Arts & Culture$98,570Education$37,000Food & Nutrition$2,200Human Services$1,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $65,170 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $5,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAPER TRAIN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY TAR RIVER REGION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
  • Who funds DIAPER TRAIN ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY TAR RIVER REGION ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Duke Energy FoundationTriangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…John William Pope Fou…Bell Koonce Burnette …Bell Schaefer Family …Ella Ann L and Frank …United Way of the Gre…Eddie and Jo Allison …Natl Christian Charit…Truist Foundation Inc
Duke Energy FoundationNC22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman & Rose Shamberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman & Rose Shamberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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