· Private foundation
Robert B Taylor III 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE BEACON PLACE | $3,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $2,500 |
| MYERS PARK HS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CAMP BLUE SKIES | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| DILWORTH CENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $1,000 |
| AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HEART MATH TUTORING | $1,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% 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 74% of Robert B Taylor III 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, 95% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 24% — 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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC5× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +71%- CBCamp Blue Skies Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +98%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OOOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -63%
- BBBABY BUNDLESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +43%
- GRGREENSBORO ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
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.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Match mentoring volunteers with children in need to build and foster relationships.
The organization's mission is: We are guided by our Christian faith to address the impact of poverty and trauma on families with children in Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties. We do this through advocacy, education, empowerment,…
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community based response
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical Christian movement whose goal is to build safe, decent, affordable homes for our neighbors in need. Through conscience and action, Habitat utilizes volunteer labor…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of the Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Out of the Garden Project. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 46 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 THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Blue Skies Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds THE TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds BABY BUNDLES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds PTA North Carolina Congress Selwyn School PTA ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds DILWORTH YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Foster Village Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Kontoor Brands Foundation · The Ackermann 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 Robert B Taylor III 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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