· Public charity
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $60,107 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $54,252 |
| CATALYST CONSULTING GROUP | $25,608 |
| GARIBAY GROUP INC | $24,640 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,221 |
| THE WORKS INC | $10,000 |
| CITY OF MOAB | $10,000 |
| WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC (WE ACT) | $10,000 |
| HOLLY-GROVE DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR NATIVE HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| VIBRANT HAWAII | $10,000 |
| METRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CARIBBEAN REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC | $10,000 |
| GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC | $10,000 |
| YUMA COUNTY FREE LIBRARY DISTRICT | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 58% of your 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.
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.
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.
The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
GWIs mission is to foster the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic & social…
Develop and provide affordable housing
Through collaborative action, we empower individuals and communities to improve both the environment and their well-being, creating lasting, impactful change by regenerating ecosystems and reconnecting people back to nature.
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Build a healthy community by supporting the revitalization of the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, through housing and economic development.
To promote neighborhood revitalization and sustainability in the Hamilton Heights, Wells-Goodfellow and surrounding neighborhoods by assisting others, increasing the quality and availability of affordable and market-rate housing, and…
To promote and maintain a strong business climate throughout the city and to foster a healthy and sustainable economy for the benefit of the entire community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caribbean Regenerative Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Hollygrove-Dixon Neighborhood Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Metro Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOLLYGROVE-DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARIBBEAN REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Native Health Inc ↗
- Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
- Who funds The Works Inc ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT HAWAII ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% 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.