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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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$158kArts & Culture$123kHousing & Shelter$118kInternational$81kHuman Services$33kEnvironment$28kCommunity Improvement$14kEducation$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,526
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ARTS CENTER$9,000
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND$6,500
INTERFAITH COUNCIL$6,150
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE$5,000
THE TRILLIUM COLLABORATIVE$5,000
COMMUNITY WORX$4,989
CLUB NOVA$4,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$3,000
EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NFG - FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $2k → 15%NFG - FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%NFG - FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $615 → 15%NFG - FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $153 → 15%NFG - FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $100 → 15%EMPOWERMENT: $1k → 13%EMPOWERMENT: $500 → 13%EMPOWERMENT INC: $250 → 13%EMPOWERMENT INC: $250 → 13%TABLE: $1k → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $600 → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $526 → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $511 → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 13%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $300 → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$537k · 60 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
28

Total granted

$537k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+29%

Still filing today

57%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AC
    ARTS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +52%
  • IC
    INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +28%
  • THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • EI
    EOS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
  • CT
    CAROLINA THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +162%
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
Durham Community Land Trustees Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal
3
Disability Rights North Carolina

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.

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4
Charlotte Family Housing

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.

Human Services
5
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Forward Justice Action Network

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…

Human Services
8
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
9
Caramore Community

To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.

—
10
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
11
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLUB NOVA: $64,560 · OtherCLUB NOVAINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $58,413 · OtherINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INCCOVA: $22,563 · OtherCOVATRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $22,530 · OtherTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INCEOS INTERNATIONAL: $22,000 · OtherEOS INTERNATIONALHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE: $19,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $15,255 · OtherUNC SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $14,000 · Other+72 more: $143,474 · Other+72 moreARTS CENTER: $69,215 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTERTHE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP: $15,712 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM JAZZ WOR…MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $7,628 · Arts & CultureMUSIC MAKER FOUNDAT…SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $5,240 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,300 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $52,273 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMU…EL FUTURO INC: $18,950 · HealthFREEDOM HOUSE: $11,599 · HealthJOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,150 · HealthORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1,500 · HealthPEE WEE HOMES: $7,492 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $4,106 · Housing & ShelterFAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $4,043 · Human ServicesCHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $2,937 · Human ServicesEMPOWERMENT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOOK HARVEST: $8,000 · EducationE3 CAMP: $1,100 · EducationTRIANGLE BIKEWORKS INC: $523 · Education
Other$381,795Arts & Culture$102,095Community Improvement$52,273Health$35,199Housing & Shelter$11,598Human Services$9,980Education$9,623

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 budgetARTS CENTER: $69,215 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $58,413 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $52,273 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $22,530 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEL FUTURO INC: $18,950 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP: $15,712 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $15,255 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $11,599 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $7,628 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPEE WEE HOMES: $7,492 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $7,045 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $6,218 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $5,240 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $4,106 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $4,043 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXTRAORDINARY VENTURES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,150 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $2,937 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNC WARN INC: $2,740 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC: $2,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,542 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERMENT INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREINTEGRATION SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGROW YOUR WORLD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPartners for Youth Opportunity: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICAL EMPOWERMENT INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHRESHOLD INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Kindness Foundation: $1,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetE3 CAMP: $1,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREALITY MINISTRIES INC: $505 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON SERVICE CORPS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDurham Parks Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHidden Voices: $300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGE II SPORTS INC: $259 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $77 over 1y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Strowd Roses IncUnited Way of the Gre…Bertsch Family Charit…The Mary Duke Biddle …North Carolina Commun…Foundation for the Ca…Duke UniversityZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Carolina Hurricanes F…Carlson Family Founda…The Leon Levine Found…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC80.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shared Visions Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Shared Visions Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 101 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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