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Page & George Bradham Family 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.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$126kReligion$52kEnvironment$41kHuman Services$34kInternational$30kHealth$25kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$435k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOF ABOVE INC$8,000
HEART MATH TUTORING INC$6,000
ASHEVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$6,000
CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC$5,000
NOURISH UP$5,000
CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY INC$4,000
CAROLINA DAY SCHOOL$4,000
OPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE$4,000
THE ARC OCONEE COUNTY$2,500
CATAWBA LAND CONSERVANCY$2,000
HOPEWAY FOUNDATION$1,500
MEDGLOBAL$1,500
JANE'S FUND$1,500
WEST BLVD MINISTRY$1,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHARLOTTE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHOOSE MENTAL HEALTH: $3k → 8%COMPANEROS INMIGRANTES DE LAS MONTANAS EN ACCION: $1k → 12%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $11k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%NOURISH UP: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE: $8k → 10%NOURISH UP: $3k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES: $1k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES INC: $8k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IN
CA
UT
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$281k · 22 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
44

Total granted

$281k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • ROOF ABOVE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +58%
  • NU
    Nourish Up
    4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +45%
  • CC
    CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +79%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlottegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +172%
  • FA
    FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +11%

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
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
2
TreesCharlotte

Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.

Environment
3
Carolina Common Enterprise

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…

Community Improvement
4
Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Sustain Charlotte Inc

Sustain Charlotte's mission is to create a more equitable, connected, and healthy community by inspiring responsible growth and transportation choices.

Community Improvement
6
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Carolina Community Foundation

Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…

Philanthropy
8
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
9
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
10
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
11
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children

To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.

Philanthropy
12
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth and Collegiate Athlet…Independent K-8 SchoolsYouth Academic EnrichmentFaith-Based Health and Well…Western North Carolina Comm…Community Health & WellnessCrisis Support and Recovery…Performing Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
15%
7,956/53,118

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
36/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASHEVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $68,500 · OtherASHEVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONOPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE — $21,000 · OtherOPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLEFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $10,000 · OtherCATAWBA LAND CONSERVANCY — $8,500 · OtherE2D — $6,500 · Other+40 more — $65,091 · Other+40 moreNourish Up — $16,500 · Human ServicesNourish UpCrisis Assistance Ministry — $15,500 · Human ServicesCrisis Assist…Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte — $7,500 · Human ServicesCatholic Char…Choose Mental Health — $3,000 · Human ServicesChoose Mental…The Camp Cole Foundation Inc — $1,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $15,000 · EducationCLASSROOM C…Heart Math Tutoring Inc — $12,500 · EducationHeart Math …AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE — $5,500 · EducationAUGUSTINE L…Carolina Day School Inc — $4,000 · EducationCarolina Da…CMS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationROOF ABOVE INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE …CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE S…LEAF GLOBAL ARTS — $8,500 · Arts & CultureLEAF GLOBAL…+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY — $16,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrue — $7,000 · EnvironmentBountiful Cities Project — $1,000 · EnvironmentGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentHopeWay Foundation — $8,500 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $8,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TENWEK INC — $5,000 · HealthMedGlobal Inc — $1,500 · HealthMISSION 34 — $1,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $13,000 · InternationalWorld Affairs Council of Charlotte — $5,000 · InternationalSTRONGER THAN EVER — $5,000 · International
Other$190,091Human Services$45,000Education$41,000Arts & Culture$40,500Environment$25,500Health$24,000International$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROOF ABOVE INC — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up — $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY — $16,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHopeWay Foundation — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEAF GLOBAL ARTS — $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountainTrue — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE — $5,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Charlotte — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTRONGER THAN EVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF TENWEK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoose Mental Health — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJANES FUND — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARC OF OCONEE COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FLETCHER SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Friends — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCMS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAARS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Blvd Ministry Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBountiful Cities Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION 34 — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKEPACKING ROOTS — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $500 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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Community Foundat…C D Spangler Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…Dogwood Health TrustThe Cannon Foundation…The Perper Family Fou…The Dickson Foundatio…The Presbyterian Hosp…Wnc Bridge FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC33× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · C D Spangler Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Perper Family Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Leon Levine 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 Page & George Bradham Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 76 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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