· Private foundation
Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| CULTURE AND HERITAGE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE - FRIENDS OF THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| TREESCHARLOTTE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MINT MUSEUM OF ART | $250 |
| CHARLOTTE MASTER CHORALE INC | $200 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC FOR ALL | $200 |
| CAROLINA RAPTOR CENTER | $170 |
| WING HAVEN FOUNDATION INC | $150 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $840k · revenue +8%- CSCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +16%
- CYCharlotte Youth Ballet Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +412%
Funded once
- RCROANOKE COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TATHE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +15%
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
We provide concerts of classical music performed by a professional chamber orchestra. We encourage young people to learn about and enjoy classical music by providing free admission to all students.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Dedicated to rigorous scholarship and performance that inspires, Bach Akademie Charlotte advances the spirit of community through the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bachs transformational music.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Charlotte ballet's mission: through dance, we create authentic connections, engaging and inclusive educational opportunities, and transformative experiences. charlotte ballet's vision: we inspire individuals and communities to explore the…
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opera Carolina and the most unlike its peers is The Artist Book Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Youth Ballet Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Museum of History ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC - CALIN LUPANU AND MONICA BOBOC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE MECKLENBURG INC ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation ↗
- Who funds Carolina Raptor Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
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 · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust · The Dickson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation 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 Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn 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 Artist Book Foundation — 3% 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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