· Public charity
Sound Rivers Inc
To protect and enhance the tar-pamlico and neuse river watersheds.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN TRUE | $20,000 |
| WINYAH RIVERS ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| SOUND RIVERS (PD BY WKC) | $10,000 |
| CAPE FEAR RIVERWATCH | $10,000 |
| SOUND RIVERS (PD BY WKC) | $5,000 |
| GOOD STEWARDS OF ROCKINGHAM | $5,000 |
| CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YADKIN RIVERKEEPER | $5,000 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA RIVERWATCH | $5,000 |
| HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- MMountainTrue2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +108%
- WRWinyah Rivers Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +1%
SOUND RIVERS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue -18%
Funded once
NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +84%
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 mission of tennessee riverkeeper is to protect and restore clean water, biological life, recreational opportunities and aesthetic values of and to the tennessee and cumberland rivers and their tributaries.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
To promote safe and healthy waters for all in west virginia, primarily through water policy advocacy. the organization provides public education and informational resources.
The mission of pej is to promote understanding and protection of urban wetlands, enhance community pride, and encourage economic development.
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
The mission of the james river association is to be guardian of the james river. we provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.
Blue ridge rc&d works with partners to conserve natural resources, foster environmental stewardship, and support sustainable community development in northwest north carolina.
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
To preserve the Broad River as a free-flowing river system and to support land use compatible with the maintenance of water quality, scenic rural character, and the preservation of sensitive natural and historic areas and wildlife habitat.
The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…
To leverage education, technology, and innovative solutions to improve river health.
The North Coast Watershed Association (NCWA) is a non-profit organization made up of diverse stakeholders from the community who coordinate, fund, and link watershed councils to community-based efforts to improve watershed health on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear River Watch and the most unlike its peers is Good Stewards of Rockingham. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds Winyah Rivers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUND RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear River Watch ↗
- Who funds Coastal Carolina Riverwatch Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD STEWARDS OF ROCKINGHAM ↗
- Who funds YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION 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: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Waterkeeper Alliance Inc · Patagoniaorg · Foundation for the Carolinas · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sound Rivers 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.