· Private foundation
Saga Community Focus Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RELIEF FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OBH DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $1,200 |
| OUTER BANKS HEALTH DEVELOPMENT COUN | $1,200 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE | $1,000 |
| CUPOLA HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC | $500 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $500 |
| DARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| CHILDREN YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE | $500 |
| SARAH LINDSEY GUPTA CHARITABLE TRUS | $500 |
| FIRST FLIGHT HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| OBX JEEP INVASION INC | $250 |
| KITTY HAWK ROTARY CLUB | $250 |
| OUTER BANKS DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COALI | $250 |
| OUTER BANKS TENNIS ASSOC | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 70% 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
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +25%
- CCCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +513%
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CECAMP EMMANUEL BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2024 · $3k
ROANOKE ISLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +247%- PRPEAK RESOURCES OUTER BANKSone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Dare county animal services, operated by the outer banks spca, provides professional and progressive animal welfare assistance to our residents. our focus is on providing quality care, rescue, reunification, and rehabilitation to all…
Empower the Outer Banks business community by promoting and developing economic prosperity.
To develop, encourage and promote public awareness of the historical and cultural heritage of boat building in dare county and to support educational opportunities for students.
To maintain and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the nc outer banks.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
The primary purpose of the outer banks relief foundation is to assist people living or working on the outer banks of north carolina who are burdened with financial difficulties due to a debiliating disease or illness or a personal tragedy…
Cape fear clinic provides compassionate and affordable patient-centered healthcare to low income individuals and families in the cape fear region, regardless of their ability to pay.
Purpose of the foundation is the operation and restoration of old baldy, a lighthouse on bald head island, nc. this is done through public donations, retail sales, museum and lighthouse fees and special tours/programs.
Cape fear bird observation inc. mission strives to promote conservation of birds and their habitats in north carolina through research, education, outreach, and community involement.
Organization that seeks to provide relief to families impacted by hurricanes in order for families to rebuild after disaster.
The purpose of the iredell coast is to provide community outreach and combat hunger within iredell county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outer Banks Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hampden-Sydney College. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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 52 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 OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE ISLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Dare Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUTER BANKS DARE CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DARE COUNTY ASSOC OF FIRE OFFICERS ↗
- Who funds CUPOLA HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER BANKS HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Outer Banks Hospital Inc · Jean R D Hecht & Betty Rae Hecht Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Saga Community Focus Inc 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.
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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