· Private foundation
The Back Yard 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US Golf Association | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NC Symphony Education Program | $5,000 |
| NC State College of Arts | $5,000 |
| Shared City Project | $5,000 |
| Interfaith Food Shuttle | $5,000 |
| TWR Ministries | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +26%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CSCALVERT SPORTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%- NSNC State School of the Artsone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
The carolinas golf foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
Promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf within the carolinas and to contribute to its growth by providing services to golf professionals and the golf industry within the carolinas.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.
Our mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and creating charitable giving strategies among individuals, families, businesses, advisors, ministries and non-profits.
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Golf Foundation Inc Dba the First Tee of the Triangle and the most unlike its peers is SuNica Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 29 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 INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP ↗
- Who funds SuNica Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Back Yard 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.