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Riddle Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$171kHealth$110kHousing & Shelter$63kHuman Services$57kArts & Culture$52kCrime & Legal$44kFood & Nutrition$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE CARE CLINIC$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK (ACTION PATHWAYS)$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
WESTOVER MEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM$4,000
RAPE CRISIS AT THE PHOENIX CENTER$4,000
CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS$3,669
VILLAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$3,000
OFF-ROAD OUTREACH NC$3,000
THE FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION - WORTH$3,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 16%OFF-ROAD OUTREACH NC: $5k → 16%OFF-ROAD OUTREACH NC: $3k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS: $2k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS: $2k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$567k · 45 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
40

Total granted

$567k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+24%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +114%
  • CF
    CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +526%
  • CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CL
    CAMPBELL LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • FD
    FAYETTEVILLE DREAM CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • FT
    FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

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

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2
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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3
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
4
Center for Economic Empowerment and Development

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.

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5
Fayettevillecumberland Crimestoppers Inc

Fight against crime

Crime & Legal
6
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
7
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
8
Community Care of North Carolina Inc

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.

Health
9
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

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.

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10
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
12
Cary Chamber of Commerce

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Regional Theatre At Fayetteville Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF NC AT PEMBROKE: $42,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NC AT PEMBROKECAPE FEAR VALLEY HOSPITAL: $32,081 · OtherCAPE FEAR VALLEY HOSPITALCAPE FEAR VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $27,815 · OtherCAPE FEAR VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY: $24,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK (ACTION PATHWAYS): $24,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK (ACTION PATHWAYS)THE CARE CLINIC INC: $22,000 · OtherCEED: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CONCERTS OF FAYETTEVILLE INCORPORATED: $18,000 · Other+64 more: $224,609 · Other+64 moreCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $19,941 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIV…FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,800 · EducationFAYETTEVILLE …FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY: $16,000 · EducationFAYETTEVILLE …PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $14,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP F…MEREDITH COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationMEREDITH COLL…+3 more: $2,500 · EducationCONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $54,500 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIO…FAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureMYROVER-REESE FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC: $6,000 · HealthVision Resource Center: $5,000 · HealthBETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthOff-Road Outreach Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesCUMBERLAND COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$435,005Education$75,241Housing & Shelter$56,500Arts & Culture$32,500Health$19,500Human Services$18,500Public Safety & Disaster$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $54,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC: $32,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARE CLINIC INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $19,941 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONCERTS OF FAYETTEVILLE INCORPORATED: $18,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN OF POWER SOCIETY OF NC: $12,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetMILLERS CREW INC: $12,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $11,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetOff-Road Outreach Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMYROVER-REESE FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVision Resource Center: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BLESSINGS OF FAYETTEVILLE INC: $3,830 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM ADDO INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER IN: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION ENGAGE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,125 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOGWOOD FESTIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE SQUARE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP ALBEMARLE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY CITIZENS UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Vision Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS INC ↗
  • Who funds 5 SPARROWS ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cumberland Community …Sharlene R Williams F…Florence Rogers Chari…Thomas R & Elizabeth …Carolyn Riddle Armstr…Jp Riddle Charitable …Youth Growth Stock Tr…The Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…Robert E Bryan Jr Fou…Duke Energy FoundationAnonymous Trust U/A D…
Cumberland Community Foundation IncNC65.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Riddle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riddle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Riddle Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Riddle Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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