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Shared Visions Foundation 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARTS CENTER | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND | $6,500 |
| INTERFAITH COUNCIL | $6,150 |
| THE TRILLIUM COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY WORX | $4,989 |
| CLUB NOVA | $4,000 |
| EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES | $3,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $3,000 |
| LOVE CHAPEL HILL | $2,800 |
| PEE WEE HOMES | $2,500 |
| REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP | $2,212 |
| TROSA | $2,030 |
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- ICINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +28%
THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +43%- TRTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- EIEOS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $22k
- CTCAROLINA THEATREone grant, 2019 · $7k
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +162%
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.
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.
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
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.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pro Bono Counseling Network. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 101 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 ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEE WEE HOMES ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYWORX FKA PTA THRIFT SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NC WARN INC ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Carlson Family Foundation · The Leon Levine 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 Shared Visions Foundation 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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