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Summer Rest 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 $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $231k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAKE COUNTY | $75,000 |
| WRIGHTSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $55,600 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $33,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND FAMILY | $30,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| PORT CITY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $10,363 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST | $10,000 |
| CLI PRISON ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| WBS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NC | $10,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2023 · $580k · revenue +30%- ECEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue +49%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- JAJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +140%
- FUFORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $40k
- MIMISSION INCREASE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To enable followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom.
Non-denominational church with the mission of impacting the city of raleigh, durham and the triangle region of north carolina with the gospel of jesus christ, raising up leaders and ministering to the poor of our city.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Line 1, Description of organization mission: Our mission is to help fulfill the great commission of making disciples through biblical counseling, coaching, small groups, speaking and writing. To provide a safe environment for adults and…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shepherd 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 34 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.
33 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. 33 of the 60 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NC VALUES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds SPORTworks Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
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 · Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Seby B Jones Family Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Eshelman Foundation · Maynard 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 Summer Rest 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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