· Private foundation
Stefan & Tanya Gleason Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| ROLEMODELS UNIV THE SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP DEV & FINANCIAL INTELLI | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $587 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SNSIGMA NU EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $63k
- CACHARLOTTE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS CLUB4× · 2019–2023 · $58k
- CTCARON TREATMENT CENTERS4× · 2019–2022 · $50k
Funded once
- SNSIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +297%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GAGABRIEL AND CRISTINA DUMITRESCUone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
To educate the public on how to build a democracy where everyone participates, every vote is counted, voting rights are fully enforced, and everyone's voice is heard; to work toward a system where everyone has a say in decisions that…
To fund academic scholarships for the young people in the state of north carolina to pursue post-secondary education trade and technical studies, undergraduate studies and graduate studies.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Amplify unrepresented voices in north carolina elections through voter education and registration.
The purpose for which this corporation is organized is: To act on behalf of the public interest by means of charitable, educational, or any other activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Within these…
To protect free press through promotion and education
The North Carolina Information Innovation Fund NCIIF will educate the residents of North Carolina on civic duty and election related matters, including the importance of voting in elections, national policies impacting North Carolina, how…
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
To bring about civic betterment and social improvements.
To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.
The purpose and goals of the foundation are to secure and administer funds directed toward (1) education that assures that registered nurses are prepared to meet the current and changing health care needs of north carolina citizens; (2)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People United for Privacy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project 2 Heal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 CHARLOTTE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHITE STAR FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds NC VALUES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Project 2 Heal ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHARLOTTE DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Electoral Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARVIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINIANS FOR HOME EDUCATION ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Stefan & Tanya Gleason Foundation 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.
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