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Richmond Community Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $790k
- $250k+2 grants · $874k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC | $477,334 |
| LEAK STREET ALUMNI INC | $396,240 |
| Individual grant recipient | $210,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC | $200,000 |
| MINERAL SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC | $100,000 |
| PEE DEE CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $100,000 |
| HAMLET HISTORIC DEPOT INC | $80,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE | $25,000 |
| SAMARITAN COLONY INC | $22,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NC | $7,500 |
| SENIOR GAMES OF RICHMOND COUNTY | $6,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CENTRAL NC COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| HYGIENE BOX INC | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE | $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 (FY19–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Richmond Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
- DPDISCOVERY PLACE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +100%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +25%
- FOFIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $977k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- RCRICHMOND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $200k
- RCRICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +287% · 50% of their budget
- HRHAMLET RESCUE & EMERGENCY MEDICALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +43%
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.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
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,…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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 20% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAK STREET ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD CHRISTIAN FOOD MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMLET RESCUE & EMERGENCY MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND INTERAGENCY TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Hamlet INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds ourBRIDGE Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds TOSCO MUSIC PARTIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHMOND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST 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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Richmond County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc 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 Richmond Community 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.
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.
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