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Schechter 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.

$500
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$253kAnimals$193kHealth$111kPhilanthropy$100kReligion$54kCivil Rights$46kHuman Services$31kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$691k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Goathouse Refuge$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Duke University: $40k → 9%Duke University: $40k → 13%Duke University: $40k → 9%Duke University: $40k → 13%Duke University: $40k → 9%Duke University: $40k → 13%Lenoir Greene United Way: $32k → 9%Animal: $10k → 13%Lenoir Greene United Way: $30k → 9%Animals Asia Foundation: $10k → 13%Lenoir Greene United Way: $20k → 9%Animalkind 20 fix program: $6k → 13%Lenoir Co SPCA: $10k → 9%Hadassah: $5k → 13%Alight: $10k → 9%Hadassah: $5k → 13%Charity Vision: $10k → 9%UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer: $5k → 13%Animal Welfare Institute: $10k → 9%Polaris: $5k → 13%International AntiPoaching Fund: $7k → 9%Animal Pet Adoption and Outreach Ct: $5k → 13%The Humane Farming Assoc: $7k → 9%Hadassah: $5k → 13%Charity Navigator: $5k → 9%Free the Slaves: $5k → 13%Free the Slaves: $5k → 9%Lenoir Hospital Foundation: $5k → 13%Animal Welfare Institute: $5k → 9%Free the Slaves: $5k → 13%Humane League: $5k → 9%Beth El Synagogue: $5k → 13%UNC Health Foundation: $5k → 9%Humane Farming Association: $5k → 13%Hadassah: $5k → 9%Alight: $5k → 13%Elaw USA: $5k → 9%Polaris: $5k → 13%Alight: $5k → 9%Medshare: $5k → 13%MedShare: $5k → 9%American Refugee Committee: $5k → 13%Semper Fi Americas Fund: $5k → 9%Medshare: $5k → 13%Medshare: $5k → 9%Semper Fi Fund: $5k → 13%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli: $5k → 9%American Refugee Committee: $5k → 13%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$835k · 67 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
55

Total granted

$835k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+41%

Still filing today

16%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $240k · revenue +51%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +145%
  • DN
    Democracy North Carolina
    4× · 2018–2022 · $850 · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • A
    Animal
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IA
    International AntiPoaching Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • S
    SAFE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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2
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
3
Lake Norman Humane Inc

To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets

Animals
4
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
5
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
6
The Animal Protection Society of Durham

The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.

Animals
7
Alliance of Disability Advocates

To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.

Religion
8
Spay Neuter Charlotte

The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…

Animals
9
Promoting Animal Welfare in North Carolina

Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…

Animals
10
Carolina Wildlife Conservation Cent Er

Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured, orphaned and ill local wildlife. we focus on wildlife conservation education so that people and animals can live in productive harmony.

Animals
11
Chatham Animal Rescue and Education Inc

Chatham Animal Rescue and Education, Inc. is a Not-For-Profit Organization, whose mission is to promote the health and safety of all dogs and cats in Chatham County, North Carolina.

Animals
12
Humane Society of Davie County

The humane societys misison is to prevent cruelty and suffering among dogs and cats through rescue, adoption, and education.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dementia Alliance of North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Goathouse Refuge Incorporated. 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

19 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. 19 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Medshare: $30,000 · OtherAnimal Welfare Institute: $29,000 · OtherHadassah: $25,101 · OtherFree the Slaves: $25,000 · OtherThe Humane Farming Assoc: $22,000 · OtherALIGHT INC: $20,000 · OtherLenoir Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · Other+106 more: $416,177 · Other+106 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $240,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCLENOIR COUNTY UNITED WAY: $85,100 · PhilanthropyLENOIR COU…PIEDMONT FARM ANIMAL REFUGE: $550 · AnimalsGoathouse Refuge Incorporated: $500 · AnimalsSAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $450 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $100 · AnimalsDemocracy North Carolina: $850 · Civil RightsSOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $550 · Public Safety & DisasterARTS CENTER: $450 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LOCAL JOURNALISM INC: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$587,278Education$255,000Philanthropy$85,100Animals$1,600Civil Rights$850Public Safety & Disaster$550Arts & Culture$550

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLENOIR COUNTY UNITED WAY: $85,100 over 5y, 16% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WELFARE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT FARM ANIMAL REFUGE: $550 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGoathouse Refuge Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORCH INC: $400 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $35 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LENOIR COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE WELFARE INC ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC16× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Schechter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schechter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 124 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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