· Private foundation
Riddle Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE FEAR VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $14,064 |
| FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY | $7,500 |
| CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE | $7,000 |
| WOMEN OF POWER SOCIETY OF NC | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK (ACTION PATHWAYS) | $5,000 |
| THE CARE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| RAPE CRISIS AT THE PHOENIX CENTER | $4,000 |
| WESTOVER MEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS | $3,669 |
| OFF-ROAD OUTREACH NC | $3,000 |
| VILLAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| THE FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION - WORTH | $3,000 |
| CEED | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 12 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; $13k 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
- COCONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +114%
- CFCAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +526%
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CLCAMPBELL LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FDFAYETTEVILLE DREAM CENTERone grant, 2018 · $8k
- FTFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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,…
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To promote both small business and personal growth, productiveness and well being through loans, peer counseling, education, information, and other advocacy programs throughout cumberland county, north carolina.
Fight against crime
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The cary chamber of commerce promotes economic growth through actively engaging existing and future businesses and supporting civic activities that contribute to the quality of life in cary.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Regional Theatre At Fayetteville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Square Historical Society of North Carolina 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 92 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 CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONCERTS OF FAYETTEVILLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF POWER SOCIETY OF NC ↗
- Who funds MILLERS CREW INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Off-Road Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds MYROVER-REESE FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds Vision Resource Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds 5 SPARROWS ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Youth Growth Stock Trust · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Robert E Bryan Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008
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 Riddle Family 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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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