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Reemprise Fund

Reemprise Fund is a venture philanthropy organization that invests in emerging nonprofit leaders and early-stage organizations serving historically marginalized communities in Charlotte, North Carolina.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Youth Development$220kEducation$155kHuman Services$67kCommunity Improvement$65kEmployment$60kHealth$25kArts & Culture$14k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Academy of Goal Achievers$80,000
Healing Vine Harbor$60,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Playing for Others: $25k → 10%Gracious Hands Trsnl Housing: $30k → 10%ourBRIDGE for KIDS: $30k → 10%ourBRIDGE for KIDS: $30k → 10%Gardhouse Limited: $30k → 10%A Brighter Day Ministries: $7k → 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.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$410k · 3 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$410k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TA
    The Academy of Goal Achievers
    2× · 2024–2025 · $195k · revenue -7%
  • HV
    Healing Vine Harbor
    2× · 2024–2025 · $155k · revenue 0% · 30% of their budget
  • OI
    ourBRIDGE Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • GL
    GardHouse Limited
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -42%
  • SC
    SHARE Charlottegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +45%
  • FC
    FREEDOM COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +108%

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
Heal Charlotte

Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…

Human Services
2
Families Forward Charlotte Inc

Families Forward Charlotte partners with families living in poverty in Mecklenburg County, NC. We provide individualized mentoring, educational opportunities and essential support as we walk alongside each family on their journey toward…

Human Services
3
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
4
Foster Village Charlotte

Foster Village Charlotte creates connection with dignity for children and families experiencing foster care by meeting urgent needs, providing educational and emotional support, and advocating as a collective community voice for children.

Human Services
5
Autism Charlotte

Autism Charlotte's misison is to embrace and empower children and families affected by autism. We envision a community where every family navigation autism is supported with knowledge, resources, warmth, and understanding.

Health
6
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
7
Blessings Working Together Inc

Provide counseling and life skills

Human Services
8
Black Child Development Institute-Carolinas

"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."

Education
9
Brighter Day Recovery Inc

assisting in transforming lives

10
Refugee Hope Partners Inc

To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.

Human Services
11
A Better World Charlotte

Service inner-city families

Recreation & Sports
12
Harvesting Hope Youth and Families Services

Harvesting Hope Youth and Families Services is a youth and family services program sowing seeds of hope in the community. We provide behavioral services, mentoring, and literacy support. We also provide community based training…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Communities and the most unlike its peers is A Brighter Day Ministries Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Academy of Goal Achievers — $195,000 · EducationThe Academy of Goal AchieversHealing Vine Harbor — $155,000 · EducationHealing Vine HarborGardHouse Limited — $60,000 · Human ServicesGardHouse LimitedourBRIDGE Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE IncPlaying For Others — $25,000 · Human ServicesPlaying For OthersA Brighter Day Ministries Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesSHARE Charlotte — $35,000 · Community ImprovementSHARE Charlo…FREEDOM COMMUNITIES — $30,000 · Community ImprovementFREEDOM COMM…Facts Initiative — $15,000 · HealthPROJECT 70FORWARD — $10,000 · HealthArtsPlus — $14,000 · Other
Education$350,000Human Services$152,000Community Improvement$65,000Health$25,000Other$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Academy of Goal Achievers — $195,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetHealing Vine Harbor — $155,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetGardHouse Limited — $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSHARE Charlotte — $35,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPlaying For Others — $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFacts Initiative — $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetArtsPlus — $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Merancas Foundation Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Reemprise Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Reemprise Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Reemprise Fund 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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