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Rolf and Carrie Tweeten Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Rolf and Carrie Tweeten Charitable Foundation

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11kHousing & Shelter$10kHealth$5kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$2kInternational$1kReligion$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY$4,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE DIAPER TRAIN: $1k → 8%SAINT SAVIOUR'S CENTER DBA DIAPER TRAIN: $1k → 8%THE DIAPER TRAIN: $1k → 8%SAINT SAVIOUR'S CENTER: $500 → 8%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23k · 4 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +254% since the first grant, against +147% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$23k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+254%
+147%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • CF
    CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +989%
  • CH
    Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +254%
  • DT
    DIAPER TRAIN
    4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • HEALING TRANSITIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • AT
    APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +147%
  • THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +676%
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
Wake County Continuum of Care Dba Raleigh-Wake Partnership to End and Prev

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.

Housing & Shelter
2
Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc

Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…

Human Services
3
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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4
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
6
Nc Warn Inc

To tackle the accelerating crisis of climate change by working to transition nc to clean, efficient energy & by watch-dogging utility practices. we pursue this work through grassroots activism, technical analysis, legal challenges and…

Environment
7
Habitat for Humanity of Wake County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of wake county brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

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8
Durham Community Land Trustees Inc

Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.

Housing & Shelter
9
Charlotte Family Housing

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.

Human Services
10
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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11
Wake County Smart Start Inc

Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.

Education
12
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plm Families Together Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Housing Coalition of Madison County 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,483 · EducationCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI…THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INCCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $9,010 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Housing Coalition o…HEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $5,000 · HealthHEALING TRANSITI…DIAPER TRAIN: $3,500 · Human ServicesDIAPER TRAI…HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherHOLY TRINI…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY…PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC: $1,000 · OtherPLM FAMILI…FRIENDS OF WAKE GUARDIAN AD LITEM: $200 · OtherFRIENDS OF…APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $1,000 · International
Education$11,483Housing & Shelter$9,010Health$5,000Human Services$3,500Other$3,200Recreation & Sports$2,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,483 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $9,010 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIAPER TRAIN: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

North Carolina Commun…Triangle Community Fo…T Rowe Price Program …Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
North Carolina Community FoundationNC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Rolf and Carrie Tweeten Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rolf and Carrie Tweeten Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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