· Public charity
Service League of Hickory Inc
Community improvements through direct financial support 501(c)3 charities that provide direct support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $6,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $58,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,250 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CCCATAWBA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS6× · 2018–2023 · $62k
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION CENTER OF CATAWB2× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +34%
- HFHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CSCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -7%
- WRWOMENS RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +188%
- FCFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +20%
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.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.
Robin's nest provides a central location for the delivery of services to abused children, using the multi-disciplinary team approach to provide a continuum of care for child victims.
Provide child care and education to underprivileged children
The waccamaw youth center is committed to providing the at-risk youth of south carolina with a safe and comforting place to call home.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The children's center provides affordable high quality education and childcare for working families throughout the lowcountry.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To inspire today's youth to be physically and emotionally healthy through education, awareness and advocacy.
Provide nbsp;community nbsp;prevention nbsp;and nbsp;awareness nbsp;programs nbsp;related nbsp;to nbsp;child nbsp;abuse nbsp;and nbsp;neglect
To respectfully assist people to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency through direct services, education, and community partnerships. the agency administers more than 50 different programs including head start, early head start, homeless…
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catawba Science Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Classroom Connections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION CENTER OF CATAWB ↗
- Who funds HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLYDE CAMPBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT 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: George Foundation Inc · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Hambrick Family Foundation Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Underdown Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Service League of Hickory 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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