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Philip L Van Every 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$3.3MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.7MEnvironment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MArts & Culture$667kFood & Nutrition$529kScience & Tech$506kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $814k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN$200,000
FRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA$110,000
HOPEWAY FOUNDATION$100,000
CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY$100,000
Catawba Lands Conservancy & Carolina Thr$100,000
Haywood Street Congregation$100,000
CHARMECK FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC$100,000
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation$51,990
Carteret Community College Fdn$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
OUTREACH MISSION INC$50,000
NC School for the Deaf at Morganton Fdn$45,000
MAKE A WISH CENTRAL AND WESTERN$36,000
United Way of Greater Charlotte$30,000
BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$30,000
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 (FY19–25, $848k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Second Helpings: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $25k → 12%HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY: $100k → 9%YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY: $100k → 12%HELPMATE: $50k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $100k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $25k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $25k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $20k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $25k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $15k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $20k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $25k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%Project Outpour: $25k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHESFRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $100k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHESFRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $20k → 10%Foster Village Charlotte: $8k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES FRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $15k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES: $10k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $100k → 10%Dress for Success Charlotte: $10k → 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

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VA
NM
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 67 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
99

Total granted

$9.0M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +114% · 54% of their budget
  • DP
    DISCOVERY PLACE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $506k · revenue +100%
  • HF
    HopeWay Foundation
    5× · 2019–2025 · $500k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY NC
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -7%

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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
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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3
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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4
For Charlotte Inc

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

Religion
5
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
6
Hospitality House of Charlotte

To provide the comforts of home for families of seriously ill loved ones by offering affordable accommodations in the heart of charlotte's medical community.

Health
7
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
8
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
9
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
10
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
11
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
12
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region and the most unlike its peers is Project Life. 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 Sports ProgramsSenior Residential CareYouth Development Organizat…Charter and Independent Sch…Regional Grantmaking Founda…
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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr17%9%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr13%25%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%40%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/128
the rest of the field
15%
4,513/29,601

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

127 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. 127 of the 188 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/127
Grantees still filing
74/127
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSSNORE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN — $300,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $250,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY — $250,000 · Other+102 more — $5,271,633 · Other+102 moreCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $625,000 · HealthCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES…HopeWay Foundation — $500,000 · HealthHopeWay FoundationPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $201,990 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL…Care Ring Inc — $120,000 · HealthBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $110,000 · HealthDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $100,000 · Health+31 more — $924,484 · Health+31 moreFRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA — $1,285,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…DISCOVERY PLACE INC — $505,519 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC — $190,000 · Arts & CultureTRAIL OF HISTORY INC — $129,165 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA CAROLINA — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA CAROLINA ENDOWMENT — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureQueens University of Charlotte — $500,000 · EducationCharlotte Preparatory School Inc — $200,000 · EducationMayland Community College Foundation Inc — $55,672 · EducationWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationAllegro Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Education+3 more — $80,000 · EducationNourish Up — $145,000 · Human ServicesYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $100,000 · Human ServicesRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc — $70,000 · Human ServicesSupportive Housing Communities Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry — $50,000 · Human ServicesHELPMATE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $45,000 · Human Services+6 more — $97,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $205,000 · PhilanthropyTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $75,000 · PhilanthropyBee Mighty — $47,000 · PhilanthropyKiawah Cares Foundation — $40,000 · PhilanthropyPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $31,810 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyWEGIVEASHARE Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBLACK RIVER UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,071,633Health$2,581,474Environment$1,285,000Arts & Culture$1,044,684Education$985,672Human Services$917,500Philanthropy$508,810

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 budgetFRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA — $1,285,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $625,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC — $505,519 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte — $500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHopeWay Foundation — $500,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $205,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $201,990 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCharlotte Preparatory School Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC — $190,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance — $150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNourish Up — $145,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRAIL OF HISTORY INC — $129,165 over 2y, 65% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCare Ring Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $110,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOUTREACH MISSION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $92,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKinderMourn Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $77,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $72,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHope Haven Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $65,908 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 — $63,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSupportive Housing Communities Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMATTHEWS HELP CENTER — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMayland Community College Foundation Inc — $55,672 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CLINIC INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHELPMATE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

The Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…The Leon Levine Found…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationAlbemarle FoundationMerancas Foundation I…The Presbyterian Hosp…The Dickson Foundatio…Truist Foundation IncPresbyterian Hospital…The Community Foundat…
The Cannon Foundation IncNC87.4× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Presbyterian Hospital Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina 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 Philip L Van Every 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Philip L Van Every Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Philip L Van Every Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 188 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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