· Public charity
Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation Inc
The purposes of the raleigh kiwanis foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNING TOGETHER | $5,000 |
| HOPE REINS | $4,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $3,000 |
| WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| URBAN MINISTIRES OF WAKE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,700 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE | $2,500 |
| STEPUP MINISTRY | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| KIDZNOTES | $2,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS NC | $2,000 |
| NC READING SERVICES | $2,000 |
| WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
LEARNING TOGETHER INC4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +33%- SMSTEPUP MINISTRY4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +55%
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +31%
Funded once
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +222%- TLTAMMY LYNN CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $2k
THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +59%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
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.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To provide daycare for needy children
For children with special educational needs and their families, the frankie lemmon school and development center provides life-changing, highly specialized, individualized education and therapies in a setting with a very low…
To strengthen all families by providing parenting information and education and by preventing adolescent pregnancy.
Lemmon tree academy offers children with special educational needs and their families life-changing, highly specialized, personalized education and therapies in a setting with a very low student-to-teacher ratio. this top-quality education…
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.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helene Foundation. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LEARNING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds Helene Foundation ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOTE IN THE POCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · John Rex Endowment · North Carolina Community Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Childtrust Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · Mistler Charitable Trust
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 Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.