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Taste of the South

The organization raises funds for charitable causes across 13 charities in the southern united states by hosting an annual gala that celebrates food, music, and southern hospitality.

$564k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$323k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$649kHealth$546kEnvironment$444kHousing & Shelter$361kEducation$273kFood & Nutrition$267kScience & Tech$260kCrime & Legal$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $214k
  • $250k+1 grant · $323k
$20,498
Median grant
14
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIRCI$323,252
KATES CLUB$41,979
OASIS COUNSELING$30,778
ACTIVE MINDS$29,387
NAMI GREATER HOUSTON$24,266
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CENTRAL CAROLINAS$22,583
KIDS HUB CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$20,498
MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE$18,575
NEW DAY RANCH$15,930
CANCER RETREAT CENTERS$10,243
CHILDREN AND FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER$8,897
CHILDRENS COALITION FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA$6,893
MISSOURI MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,530
HERE TOMORROW$5,410
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $29k → 14%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MANATEE: $11k → 10%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $16k → 12%DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%HERO DOGS: $27k → 8%NEW DAY RANCH: $16k → 7%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTIONS: $10k → 10%KATES CLUB: $42k → 14%SAMARITAN INNS INC: $28k → 14%SAMARITAN INNS INC: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 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.

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Crisis Care Line

Domestic violence victim services

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S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

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3
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
4
Wrc Inc

The women's resource center's mission is to eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault abuse through advocacy, education, system change, and empowering services to all surviors. the center provides sexual assault and domestic violence…

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5
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter

Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Coastal Women's Shelter Inc

To eradicate domestic violence in craven, jones, and pamlico counties and to help families break the cycle of domestic violence and acquire the skills necessary to promote healthy family relationships. the organization provides crisis…

Human Services
7
Haven House Inc

Help domestic violence victims gain immediate safety plus the knowledge, skills and resources to succeed in lives free of violence.

Crime & Legal
8
Advocates Against Domestic Abuse

HOPE (Healing Opportunity Provided Equally) works to end violence and provide safety through direct services, education and advocacy to all people experiencing domestic violence

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9
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
10
Crisis Connection Inc

The mission of crisis connection, inc. is to promote individual accountability and respect to end domestic violence and sexual assault through confidential crisis intervention, victim advocacy, primary prevention education, and…

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11
Northwest Arkansas Women's Shelter

The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.

Human Services
12
Hope House of South Central Wisconsin Inc

The mission of hope house is to prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. our service area includes sauk, columbia, juneau, marquette, and adams counties.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County and the most unlike its peers is Reset. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,493

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

71 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. 71 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
44/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $367,300 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND…KATE'S CLUB INC — $41,979 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INCSAMARITAN INNS INC — $33,735 · Human ServicesSURVIVORS AND ADVOCATES FOR EMPOWERMENT INC — $30,608 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $29,131 · Human ServicesHero Dogs Inc — $26,705 · Human Services+9 more — $106,835 · Human Services+9 moreBRIDGE STEPS — $295,182 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE STEPSEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC — $254,896 · Food & NutritionEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC+2 more — $11,870 · Food & NutritionMental Illness Recovery Center Inc — $323,252 · OtherMental Illness Recovery …WOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV — $29,096 · OtherRESET — $28,805 · OtherWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $26,789 · OtherSAFE PASSAGE INC — $24,600 · OtherMental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc — $22,583 · Other+26 more — $192,632 · Other+26 moreGULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC — $352,974 · EnvironmentGULF COAST CENTE…KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC — $16,099 · EnvironmentLOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER INC — $15,223 · Environment+5 more — $49,596 · Environment+5 morePATRIOT FOUNDATION — $233,665 · Recreation & SportsPATRIOT FO…WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC — $20,170 · Recreation & SportsWILDERNESS…+1 more — $8,270 · Recreation & SportsGEORGIA FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $252,040 · Science & TechGEORGIA F…Oasis Counseling for Women and Children — $30,778 · HealthActive Minds Inc — $29,387 · HealthNAMI National — $24,266 · HealthKIDS HUB — $20,498 · HealthMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $18,575 · HealthELIZAS HELPING HANDS INC — $13,829 · HealthCANCER RETREAT CENTERS INC — $10,243 · HealthMISSOURI MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,530 · HealthHERE TOMORROW INC — $5,410 · Health
Human Services$636,293Food & Nutrition$561,948Other$647,757Environment$433,892Recreation & Sports$262,105Science & Tech$252,040Health$158,516

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $367,300 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC — $352,974 over 1y, 48% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc — $323,252 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS — $295,182 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC — $254,896 over 1y, 61% of budgetGEORGIA FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $252,040 over 1y, 34% of budgetPATRIOT FOUNDATION — $233,665 over 1y, 21% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC — $41,979 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAMARITAN INNS INC — $33,735 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $30,778 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSURVIVORS AND ADVOCATES FOR EMPOWERMENT INC — $30,608 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $29,387 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $29,131 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV — $29,096 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $26,789 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $24,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAMI National — $24,266 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc — $22,583 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS HUB — $20,498 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC — $20,170 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $18,575 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC — $17,795 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN INC DBA TURNING POINT — $17,663 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE — $16,438 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC — $16,099 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW DAY RANCH — $15,930 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER INC — $15,223 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKATAWBA VALLEY LAND TRUST — $13,892 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetELIZAS HELPING HANDS INC — $13,829 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $13,302 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Works — $12,988 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF MANATEE INC — $10,852 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $10,798 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $10,672 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $10,255 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANCER RETREAT CENTERS INC — $10,243 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTennessee State Parks Conservancy — $9,909 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY — $8,897 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN A NEW GROOVE — $8,820 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION — $8,579 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOASIS - A SAFE HAVEN FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $8,384 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLSTART — $8,270 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $8,014 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC — $7,804 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $7,458 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO RIVER FOUNDATION — $6,908 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCHILDRENS COALITION FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA — $6,893 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE — $6,678 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Selby and Richard McR…Mary Kay Ash Foundati…The Morris and Gwendo…Veterans United Found…The Community Foundat…Carmax FoundationDuke Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Enterprise Holdings F…Greater Washington Co…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…
Selby and Richard McRae FoundationMS13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Mary Kay Ash Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Carmax Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Taste of the South 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 · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Taste of the South?

    Find your warmest path to Taste of the South 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 72 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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