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Social Venture Partners Charlotte Inc

Social Venture Partners Charlotte invests in and strengthens innovative nonprofits who are tackling our communitys greatest challenges by leveraging a network of engaged philanthropists.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$280kYouth Development$190kCommunity Improvement$154kHuman Services$133kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$50kEmployment$29kCivil Rights$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$440k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Attention Home$23,000
GardHouse$20,000
Feeding Charlotte$20,000
Youth Meditation$20,000
Others under 5000$18,000
Arins Good Girl Dog Treats$9,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ourBRIDGE for KIDS Inc: $10k → 10%ourBRIDGE for KIDS Inc: $10k → 10%GardHouse: $20k → 10%Fashion and Compassion: $50k → 10%Foster Village Charlotte: $25k → 10%ourBRIDGE for KIDS Inc: $25k → 10%Latin American Coalition: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$505k · 9 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +353% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
21

Total granted

$505k
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+353%
+55%

Still filing today

78%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PG
    PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +172%
  • TR
    The ROC Charlotte Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +80%
  • FC
    Feeding Charlotte Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +797%

Funded once

  • D
    Digi-Bridgegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +515%
  • B
    BRAVEWORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +103%
  • CM
    Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Heal Charlotte

Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…

Human Services
2
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
3
Autism Charlotte

Autism Charlotte's misison is to embrace and empower children and families affected by autism. We envision a community where every family navigation autism is supported with knowledge, resources, warmth, and understanding.

Health
4
LaunchLKN Inc

LaunchCLT connects founders and mentors to catalyze a viable, sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem in the greater Charlotte region of North Carolina. Our mission is to support the formation and growth of commercial and non-profit…

Employment
5
MakerSpace Charlotte

Encourage technological creativity and community by enabling people to use tools, to learn by making things and to share knowledge.

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6
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
7
Charlotte Is Creative

Charlotte Is Creative develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and remake it with creativity into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social and creative…

Arts & Culture
8
Share Charlotte

SHARE Charlotte is building a better Charlotte by empowering nonprofits and helping people invest in their communities in ways that matter most to them.

Community Improvement
9
Black Child Development Institute-Carolinas

"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."

Education
10
Young Icons

Our mission is to stabilize the music community by Providing direct access to the recording arts for young musicians via mentorship, training and collaboration. We built this program to attack a major issue we see in Charlotte. "There are…

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11
House of Hope Community Development Corporation

The mission of HHCDC is to identify the comprehensive challenges that threaten the well-being of the residents and businesses of Charlotte, build relationships within the community, and develop practical solutions that will improve access…

Employment
12
Nest Academy Inc

The Nest Academy is a trauma-informed, private K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina with a mission to change the lives of refugee and underprivileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Attention Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Para Guide Foundation. 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 12 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%0%<5yr20%36%5–10yr21%36%10–20yr12%14%20–35yr8%9%35–55yr8%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%0%<5yr20%35%5–10yr21%50%10–20yr12%9%20–35yr8%5%35–55yr8%1%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
10%
3/31
the rest of the field
22%
1,391/6,467

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUTH MEDITATION — $40,000 · OtherYOUTH MEDITATIONOthers under 5000 — $37,069 · OtherOthers under 5000Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools — $25,000 · OtherCharlotte Mecklenburg School…Promising Pages Inc — $25,000 · OtherPromising Pages IncCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC — $23,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME IN…PIVOT POINT — $22,053 · OtherPIVOT POINTCOPS AND BARBERS — $17,500 · OtherCOPS AND BARBERSTRANSCEND CHARLOTTE INC — $12,500 · OtherTRANSCEND CHARLOTTE INCBRAND THE MOTH — $10,000 · OtherArins Good Girl Dog Treats Llc — $9,000 · Other+2 more — $12,650 · Other+2 moreFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesFamilies Forward Charlot…BRAVEWORKS — $50,000 · Human ServicesBRAVEWORKSourBRIDGE Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE IncFoster Village Charlotte — $25,000 · Human ServicesFoster Village CharlotteGardHouse Limited — $20,000 · Human ServicesGardHouse Limited+1 more — $5,150 · Human ServicesThe ROC Charlotte Inc — $75,000 · EducationThe ROC Charlotte IncDigi-Bridge — $50,000 · EducationDigi-BridgeHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $35,000 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring IncCommon Wealth Associates Inc — $25,000 · EducationCommon Wealth Associate…Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc — $12,500 · EducationPhilips Academy of Nort…PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $95,100 · Youth DevelopmentPROFOUND GENTLEMEN …Gen-One Inc — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGen-One IncTRANSFORMING YOUTH MOVEMENT INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRANSFORMING YOUTH …Feeding Charlotte Inc — $67,500 · Food & NutritionSOCCER SHOTS FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTE INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPARA GUIDE FOUNDATION — $13,600 · Recreation & SportsA Better World Charlotte — $5,100 · Recreation & SportsChemoCars Inc — $20,000 · HealthFacts Initiative — $9,028 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $7,500 · Health
Other$233,772Human Services$205,150Education$197,500Youth Development$165,100Food & Nutrition$67,500Recreation & Sports$38,700Health$36,528

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $95,100 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFeeding Charlotte Inc — $67,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetDigi-Bridge — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBRAVEWORKS — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGen-One Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCommon Wealth Associates Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPromising Pages Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFoster Village Charlotte — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRANSFORMING YOUTH MOVEMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGardHouse Limited — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetChemoCars Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPARA GUIDE FOUNDATION — $13,600 over 1y, 20% of budgetPhilips Academy of North Carolina Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFacts Initiative — $9,028 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetArins Good Girl Dog Treats Llc — $9,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget101 Gardens — $7,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetLatin American Coalition — $5,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA Better World Charlotte — $5,100 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationMerancas Foundation I…Womens Impact FundThe Leon Levine Found…Albemarle FoundationWells Fargo FoundationBrighthouse Financial…Ally Charitable Found…Truist Foundation IncCharlotte Woman's Clu…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC47.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Womens Impact Fund · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Brighthouse Financial Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank

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 Social Venture Partners Charlotte 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    4report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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