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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
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States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of NORMAN & ROSE SHAMBERG FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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Your 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 your 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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you 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%
+7%

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

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

  • 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

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

04Your field

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.

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

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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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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc and 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 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

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.

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

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 Norman & Rose Shamberg 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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