· Private foundation
Sears Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH ON MORGAN | $85,000 |
| THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT | $45,000 |
| CASA | $25,000 |
| STEPUP MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| SHIP COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| SAFECHILD | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| WOMEN THAT CARE INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT5× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +91%
A PLACE AT THE TABLE5× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +162%- GOGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- BBLOOMHEREone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -50%
- TQTHE QUIET PLACE NC INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
On the rise's work begins with individuals experiencing homelessness and continues if and when they secure housing. from our origin as a women's organization, our programs have evolved toward inclusion of those historically and…
Our mission is to provide comprehensive life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that promote healing from substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and homelessness.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.
Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.
Roof above, inc. is an interfaith, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to unite the community to end homelessness, one life at a time. we do so by providing an array of homeless services and housing services in the charlotte metro…
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CASA ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMHERE ↗
- Who funds OAK CITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Aspire Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds THE QUIET PLACE NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN INC ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Churches Outreach Network ↗
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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Realtor Foundation of Wake County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sears Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sears Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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