· Private foundation
The Allen Tate Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL CAPITAL | $10,000 |
| HOMEOWNERS IMPACT FUND | $10,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| THE GOODFELLOWS CLUB | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS | $2,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
89 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- CCCHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS6× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +70%
- CACabarrus Arts Council5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +23%
- GEGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +49%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Charlotte Is Creative develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and remake it with creativity into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social and creative…
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.
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…
The united arts council of raleigh and wake county, inc. builds better communities through support and advocacy of the arts. the organization strives to (1) champion arts education; (2) serve a larger metropolitan area with emerging…
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
Economic development of wilkes county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 179 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 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S PLACE OF CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds Visual Art Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds Cabarrus Arts Council ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Homeowners Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR TOWNS OF NORTH MECKLENBURG - IREDELL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Randolph County Family Crisis Center 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way Worldwide · Comporium Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital
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 The Allen Tate 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.