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Sharp Emma O-Ochiltree Foundation-Tr
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNANDALE AT SUWANEE | $96,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $25,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $12,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY | $10,790 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,585 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE | $3,700 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TAThe Annandale Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $438k · revenue +101% · 67% of their budget
- AAAnnandale At Suwanee Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $186k · revenue +19%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- AVANNANDALE VILLAGEone grant, 2018 · $98k
- UDUNC DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARone grant, 2018 · $30k
- FOFriends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Departmentone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -30% · 65% of their budget
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roger's Eubanks Neighborhood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 52 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 The Annandale Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Annandale At Suwanee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department ↗
- Who funds ROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds TIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY 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: Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Strowd Roses Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Impactassetsinc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Columbus 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 Sharp Emma O-Ochiltree Foundation-Tr 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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