· Private foundation
Southern Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $232k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $596k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY INC | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE (003689) | $107,500 |
| OUTER BANKS HOSPTIAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| BARTON COLLEGE (006943) | $50,000 |
| WILMINGTON AREA REBUILDING MINISTRY INC | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS | $25,000 |
| ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| SYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK AND ECO CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC | $25,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF GOLDSBORO NC INC | $25,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA WESLYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION I | $25,000 |
| BERTIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AAPI OF HAMPTON ROADS | $21,500 |
| PITT COUNTY COMMITTEE OF 100 | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
119 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 34 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k 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
- COCity of Refuge Foundation Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +406%
- FWFREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +35%
KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $200k
- COCOLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLEone grant, 2021 · $35k
- SHSYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK AND Eone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds City of Refuge Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pitt County Committee of 100 Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE & WOMBLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds AAPI of Hampton Roads Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds The Family Y ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk Management · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · East Carolina Health · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health
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 Southern Bank Foundation 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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