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Rhi Legacy Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$253k
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 FY20212024.

Public Benefit$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$947kArts & Culture$552kHealth$406kEducation$405kHuman Services$235kHousing & Shelter$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $518k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $253k
$10,525
Median grant
3
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$252,500
KIDSENSES INC$175,000
CHIMNEY ROCK DISASTER RELIEF$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TOWN OF LAKE LURE$50,000
RUTHERFORD CO SCHOOLS EDU FND$45,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY SENIOR CENTER$41,000
BLUE RIDGE HOPE$35,000
BASICS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC$35,000
LAKE LURE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$34,000
COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD FINANCE OFFICE$25,000
FOOTHILLS HEALTH DISTRICT$25,000
WASHBURN COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$25,000
RUTHERFORD OUTDOOR COALITION$23,000
ABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC$22,337
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 (FY21–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRACE OF GOD RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 10%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $60k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $42k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $3k → 16%HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH LLC: $21k → 16%HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH LLC: $15k → 16%YOKEFELLOW SERVICE CENTER: $20k → 16%FAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD CO: $25k → 16%FAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD CO: $21k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $20k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $10k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $8k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $6k → 16%OUT OF THE ASHES: $5k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $3k → 16%FAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD CO: $1k → 16%CAROLINA FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%FAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD CO: $750 → 16%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 42 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
41

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+45%

Still filing today

45%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • KI
    KIDSENSES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $552k · revenue +37% · 39% of their budget
  • RH
    RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +102%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE HOPE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +577%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF FOREST CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $284k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $75k

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
Community Helpers of Rutherford County

To assist in providing basic needs

2
Christian Fellowship Home Foundatio

Support the fellowship home of raleigh, inc. in its treatment of alcoholism or substance abuse.

Housing & Shelter
3
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire and rescue services in the lake lure and bills creek area of rutherford county nc

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Religious Community Services of New Bern

Provide assistance to the needy

5
Ruths House

Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.

Crime & Legal
6
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
7
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

8
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

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

Health
9
Shingle Hollow Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and rescue services in rutherford county nc

Public Safety & Disaster
10
TreesCharlotte

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

Environment
11
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
12
Randolph County Family Crisis Center Inc

The mission of the Randolph County Family Crisis Center, Inc. is to serve people who have been affected by abuse. In addition, the organization works to eliminate abuse in the community it serves.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Foothills Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Forest City Owls Foundation Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%3%<5yr20%11%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr12%24%20–35yr8%30%35–55yr8%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%0%<5yr20%8%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr12%40%20–35yr8%16%35–55yr8%15%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
21%
1,442/6,791

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

35 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. 35 of the 100 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN OF RUTHERFORDTON — $794,500 · OtherTOWN OF RUTHERFORDTONTOWN OF FOREST CITY — $500,000 · OtherTOWN OF FOREST CITYIndividual grant recipient — $302,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $284,338 · OtherIndividual grant recipientISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $275,500 · OtherISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGERUTHERFORD CO SCHOOLS EDU FND — $240,000 · OtherRUTHERFORD CO SCHOOLS EDU FNDRUTHERFORD COUNTY SENIOR CENTER — $181,000 · OtherTOWN OF LAKE LURE — $150,000 · Other+73 more — $1,579,628 · Other+73 moreKIDSENSES INC — $552,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSENSES I…UNION MILLS LEARNING CENTER INC — $42,500 · Arts & CultureUNION MILLS…RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $149,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $47,750 · Human ServicesGrahamtown Team — $45,100 · Human ServicesHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesYokefellow Service Center — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE HOPE — $125,000 · HealthCANCER ACTIVE INC — $4,500 · Health+3 more — $4,079 · HealthPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES — $85,000 · Crime & LegalABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC — $45,258 · Crime & LegalRutherford Outdoor Coalition Inc — $119,000 · Recreation & SportsBASICS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $115,000 · Religion
Other$4,307,466Arts & Culture$594,500Human Services$305,350Health$133,579Crime & Legal$130,258Recreation & Sports$119,000Religion$115,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDSENSES INC — $552,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetRUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $149,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HOPE — $125,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetRutherford Outdoor Coalition Inc — $119,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetBASICS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $115,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH MOUNTAINS CHRISTIAN CAMP INC — $75,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetClassical Academies CFA Inc — $49,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $47,750 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetConserving Carolina — $46,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC — $45,258 over 2y, 18% of budgetGrahamtown Team — $45,100 over 4y, 17% of budgetUNION MILLS LEARNING CENTER INC — $42,500 over 3y, 50% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $36,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC — $36,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetForest City Swim Team Association Inc — $35,540 over 1y, 60% of budgetRUTHERFORD LIFE SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRUTHERFORD BUILDING AGRICULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS NOW INC — $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCAROLINA CLIMBERS COALITION — $23,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC — $20,525 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYokefellow Service Center — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCHERRY MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson Classical Academy — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $8,700 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTrinity School Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $7,305 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUT OF THE ASHES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCANCER ACTIVE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOREST CITY OWLS FOUNDATION CORP — $4,130 over 1y, 45% of budgetTeal Diva — $2,579 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Foothills Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE OF GOD RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE FOR LIFE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds KIDSENSES INC
  • Who funds RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE HOPE
  • Who funds Rutherford Outdoor Coalition Inc
  • Who funds BASICS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
  • Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAINS CHRISTIAN CAMP INC
  • Who funds Classical Academies CFA Inc
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Conserving Carolina
  • Who funds ABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds Grahamtown Team
  • Who funds UNION MILLS LEARNING CENTER INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC
  • Who funds Forest City Swim Team Association Inc

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.

Gateway Wellness FoundationNC38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gateway Wellness Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Carolina Foothills Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Glenn & Lucille Hampton Daniel Foundation · Stonecutter Foundation Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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 Rhi Legacy 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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, 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 Rhi Legacy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rhi Legacy Foundation Inc 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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