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Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina at a glance

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Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina

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.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$463kEducation$176kAnimals$95kHealth$81kArts & Culture$74kHuman Services$58kRecreation & Sports$40kInternational$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$30,000
MADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER$15,000
NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION$12,000
FRIENDS OF MOOREFIELDS$10,000
ROGERS EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION (RENA)$10,000
EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$8,500
INTERFAITH COUNCIL - FOOD FOR THE SUMMER$7,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
CLUB NOVA COMMUNITY$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ORANGE COUNTY$5,000
IPAS$5,000
ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMPOWERMENT INC: $10k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+27%

Still filing today

87%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthInternationalAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue +61%
  • RE
    ROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +47%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • AA
    Annandale At Suwanee Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • MF
    MOOREFIELDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • EI
    EMPOWERMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +125%
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
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
2
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
11
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
12
North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Extraordinary Ventures. 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

30 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. 30 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $170,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLFriends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department: $40,000 · OtherFriends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Dep…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $37,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $30,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC IncINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $28,000 · OtherINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INCFriends of Orange County Department of Social Services: $20,000 · OtherCHAPEL HILL DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $126,500 · Other+18 moreTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INCROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD: $65,000 · EnvironmentROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOODWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $29,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentCLUB NOVA COMMUNITY INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthAnnandale At Suwanee Inc: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthMADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER: $75,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF MOOREFIELDS: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMarian Cheek Jackson Center: $8,500 · Arts & CultureIPAS: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · InternationalCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$471,500Environment$398,500Health$80,000Animals$77,000Arts & Culture$53,500International$33,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $275,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER: $75,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD: $65,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOOREFIELDS: $45,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFriends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department: $40,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLUB NOVA COMMUNITY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIPAS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Orange County Department of Social Services: $20,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCHAPEL HILL DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAnnandale At Suwanee Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXTRAORDINARY VENTURES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENT NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $14,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMarian Cheek Jackson Center: $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVanderbilt University: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChatham Animal Rescue and Education Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Sharp Emma O-Ochiltre…Strowd Roses IncTriangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Carlson Family Founda…Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Dennis Swartzlander &…Shared Visions Founda…Bertsch Family Charit…Food Bank of Central …Impactassetsinc
Sharp Emma O-Ochiltree Foundation-TrPA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sharp Emma O-Ochiltree Foundation-Tr · Strowd Roses Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Impactassetsinc

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 Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina?

    Find your warmest path to Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 42 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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