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Robert White & Gaither Smoot Deaton Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of ROBERT WHITE & GAITHER SMOOT DEATON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $7,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$200
Median grant
3
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alexander Childrens Foundation$2,000
Myers Park Presbyterian Church$2,000
Linville Foundation$1,000
Foundation for the Carolinas$1,000
Wee Kirk Presbyterian Chuch$1,000
Levine Museum of the New South$200
First Presbyterian Church$100
St Timothis Episcopal Church$100
St Stephens Episcopal Church$100
The Madeira Fund$100
Leukemia Society$100
Norfolk Academy$100
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30k · 9 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$30k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+6%

Still filing today

44%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TM
    The Madeira Fund
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $6k
  • AC
    ALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • PI
    Physicians Impact Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • Davidson Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • ZE
    Zero, End or Prostrate Cancer
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

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

03Your field

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.

1
North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmin

The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.

Arts & Culture
2
The Winston-Salem Foundation

We foster meaningful connections and link resources to purposeful action, creating a brighter future for all who call Forsyth County home.

Philanthropy
3
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
4
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
5
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
6
Barton College

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…

Education
7
Alamance Community College Foundation

The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.

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8
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
9
Central Carolina Community Foundation

Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…

Philanthropy
10
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
11
Leadingage North Carolina

Through advocacy, education, innovation and collaboration, the association provides expanded possibilities for aging, value to its members, and leadership to the field of aging.

Human Services
12
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Southminster Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Madeira Fund — $12,700 · OtherThe Madeira FundPhysicians Impact Fund — $10,000 · OtherPhysicians Impact FundPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA — $5,500 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAZero, End or Prostrate Cancer — $1,500 · Other+15 more — $4,300 · Other+15 moreALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyALEXANDER CHILD…FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $3,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR …Davidson College — $2,600 · EducationDavidson Co…LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 · EducationLINVILLE FO…+3 more — $300 · Education+3 moreWomens Impact Fund — $2,600 · Human ServicesSOUTHMINSTER FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC — $100 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry — $100 · Human ServicesMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $2,200 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC — $250 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100 · Arts & CultureWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary — $250 · AnimalsHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $100 · AnimalsAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc — $200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$34,000Philanthropy$7,000Education$5,300Human Services$2,900Arts & Culture$2,550Animals$350Recreation & Sports$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Impact Fund — $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDavidson College — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOYES CHILDREN'S LIBRARY FOUNDATIONINC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMAR SERVICES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationDalton-Brand Foundati…The Dickson Foundatio…Dowd Foundation IncThe Marc & Mattye Sil…The Bank of America C…John S and James L Kn…The Winston-Salem Fou…Raymond James Charita…United Way WorldwideNational Philanthropi…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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