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Susan & Charles Shanor Charitable Trust
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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| UNC ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HEALTH EQUITY COALITION WNC | $25,000 |
| THE RARE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $5,000 |
| PARK PLACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| KCB REAL ESTATE VII PASSTHROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS | $19 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +221% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES3× · 2019–2022 · $150k · revenue +221%
- ACASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +80%
- HIHELPMATE INC2× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +354%
Funded once
- PAPEAK Academy Charter Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue +39%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +45%- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +18%
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.
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Fayetteville academy is an independent, college preparatory school (prek- 12) that encourages students to achieve their full potential by offering exceptional opportunities in academics, fine arts, and athletics. the academy emphasizes…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
See schedule o for continuationwake forest university health sciences (at times also referred to as "wake forest university school of medicine", "wfuhs or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
See schedule owake forest university baptist medical center (at times also referred to as the "medical center or "wfubmc or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (at times also referred to as…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville City Schools Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peak Academy Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 PEAK Academy Charter School ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Reclaim Healthcare WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ASHEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds RARE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds Hatch AVL Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLIDER ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Susan & Charles Shanor Charitable Trust 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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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