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Strowd Roses Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$448kHousing & Shelter$235kArts & Culture$165kHuman Services$154kFood & Nutrition$149kYouth Development$139kHealth$110kCrime & Legal$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$106,000
PEE WEE HOMES$10,188
INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE$10,000
THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANGLE AREA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES$10,000
ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER$10,000
REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$10,000
PORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO$10,000
COMMUNITY HOME TRUST$10,000
THE WOMEN'S CENTER DBA COMPASS CENTER$10,000
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC$7,221
MARIAN CHEEK JACKSON CENTER$5,000
FAMILY READING PARTNERS INC$5,000
FARMER FOODSHARE INC$5,000
TABLE$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SISTERS VOICES INC: $6k → 9%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $11k → 11%SISTERS VOICES INC: $3k → 9%BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER: $3k → 9%SISTERS' VOICES: $2k → 9%HOPE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5k → 9%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 13%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANGLE AREA I: $10k → 8%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 13%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $10k → 13%FAMILY READING PARTNERS: $5k → 13%FAMILY READING PARTNERS: $5k → 13%TABLE: $10k → 13%TABLE: $10k → 13%REFUGEE SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 13%TABLE: $6k → 13%FAMILY READING PARTNERS INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY READING PARTNERS INC: $5k → 13%TABLE: $5k → 13%TABLE: $2k → 13%EMPOWERMENT INC: $5k → 13%EMPOWERMENT INC: $3k → 13%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 63 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
53

Total granted

$1.5M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

84%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $318k · revenue +80%
  • REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +258%
  • PEE WEE HOMES
    4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $53k
  • KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +53%
  • LC
    LOVE CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
Carolina Human Reinvestment

Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "

Crime & Legal
3
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
4
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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5
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
6
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
7
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
8
Refugee Hope Partners Inc

To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.

Human Services
9
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
11
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte

The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…

Housing & Shelter
12
Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Public Gallery of Carrboro Inc. 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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr17%19%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr10%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr17%14%5–10yr21%46%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr10%10%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
14%
415/2,882

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

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 117 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
67/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $53,000 · OtherPUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $40,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC — $34,596 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND — $40,000 · OtherEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $37,000 · OtherREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $47,500 · OtherREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INCHOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER — $30,878 · Other+69 more — $568,642 · Other+69 moreCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $318,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO P…FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMONET RICHARDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Young…TABLE MINISTRIES INC — $32,548 · Human ServicesTABLE MIN…Family Reading Partners Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesFamily Re…KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN I…Sisters Voices Inc — $10,832 · Human ServicesSisters V…REFUGEE SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE S…EMPOWERMENT INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERME…HOPE NORTH CAROLINA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND- — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesPEE WEE HOMES — $40,188 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOME TRUST — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA — $39,300 · Housing & ShelterA Lotta Love Inc — $11,000 · Housing & ShelterMarian Cheek Jackson Center — $35,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER — $18,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $16,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL EMPOWERMENT INC — $16,000 · Arts & CultureCHELSEA ART THEATER INC — $14,200 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC GALLERY OF CARRBORO INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePeoples Channel — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN STREET ARTS COLLECTIVE D/B/A FRANK GALLERY — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,000 · Arts & CultureREALITY MINISTRIES INC — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentVolunteers for Youth Inc — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentREINTEGRATION SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC — $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES TOGETHER INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentSKJAJA Fund — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROW YOUR WORLD — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $28,000 · Food & NutritionFARMER FOODSHARE INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionPORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO — $15,000 · Food & NutritionPORCH INC — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$881,616Philanthropy$349,500Human Services$144,880Housing & Shelter$130,488Arts & Culture$125,200Youth Development$90,000Food & Nutrition$73,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $318,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $47,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPEE WEE HOMES — $40,188 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOME TRUST — $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND — $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCASA — $39,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $37,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMarian Cheek Jackson Center — $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC — $34,596 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC — $32,548 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER — $30,878 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $28,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES — $27,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $27,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC — $26,221 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFARMER FOODSHARE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREALITY MINISTRIES INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOxford House Inc — $22,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $20,400 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEXTRAORDINARY VENTURES — $20,265 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Reading Partners Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVolunteers for Youth Inc — $19,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetARTS CENTER — $18,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL EMPOWERMENT INC — $16,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetREINTEGRATION SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetB3 COFFEE — $14,860 over 2y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHELSEA ART THEATER INC — $14,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $13,800 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMONET RICHARDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetBOOK HARVEST — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE BIKEWORKS INC — $13,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRISM DESIGN LAB INC — $12,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Lotta Love Inc — $11,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSisters Voices Inc — $10,832 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetPUBLIC GALLERY OF CARRBORO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 19% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Shared Visions Founda…Bertsch Family Charit…Duke UniversityCarlson Family Founda…The Ann Ludington Sul…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Mary Duke Biddle …North Carolina Commun…Dennis Swartzlander &…Yusko Family Foundati…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC90.9× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Duke University · Carlson Family Foundation · The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation · Yusko Family 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 Strowd Roses 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
  • Oxford House Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Strowd Roses Inc?

Find your warmest path to Strowd Roses Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 117 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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