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Stein Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA | $101,000 |
| Cape Fear Community College | $32,296 |
| Albert Schweitzer Fellowship | $13,000 |
| WHQR | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Vivace Music Foundation | $5,000 |
| Port City Music Festival | $5,000 |
| UNCW | $3,000 |
| Opera House Theater | $2,500 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $2,500 |
| Kids Making It | $2,000 |
| NC Hillel | $1,500 |
| St Anne's Episcopal Church | $1,000 |
| US Holocaust Museum | $1,000 |
| Cameron Art Museum | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 13 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- VMVivace Music Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +7%
- FOFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +29%
- WJWilmington Jewish Film Festival4× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- GSGOOD SHEPERD CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue ×58
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 North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
Carolina Voices celebrates the power of the human voice to enrich, educate and unite.
The mission of the WNC Jewish Federation is to harness the collective resources of the WNC Jewish community and direct them to the Jewish needs in the local community, in Israel and abroad.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To pursue the development of research facilities and research projects for the university of north carolina at wilmington.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Winston-Salem Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 89 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 United Jewish Appeal of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music Wilmington ↗
- Who funds Vivace Music Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of Public Radio DBA WHQR ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Jewish Film Festival ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFORD LAFAYETTE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds UNCW CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds The Landfall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Cape Fear Area 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: Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Talbert Family Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · Daniel a and Sheila M Saklad Foundation · Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965
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 Stein Family Charitable 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.
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
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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