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The Bailey Chipps Family 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.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$53kReligion$33kEducation$30kInternational$25kHealth$14kArts & Culture$11kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Womens Philanthropy Institute$15,000
Foundation For The Carolinas$10,000
Women's Impact Fund$10,000
Charlotte Country Day$10,000
Wee Kirk Church$7,500
Leadership Charlotte$5,000
Charlotte Ballet$3,000
American Heart Association$2,500
Junior State of America$2,500
Women Executives for Community Serv$2,500
Foundation for Fraternal Exellence$2,500
Linville Foundation$2,500
First Presbyterian Church$1,000
Novant Health Foundation$1,000
Charlotte Symphony$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Reaching Avery Ministry: $1k → 15%Playing For Others: $750 → 10%Women's Impact Fund: $10k → 10%Women's Impact Fund: $10k → 10%Dress for Success Charlotte: $1k → 10%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

WA
NY
IN
OH
RI
CA
MO
NC
DC
HI

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$125k · 16 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$125k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WI
    Womens Impact Fund
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • LF
    LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +57%
  • WE
    Women Executives for Community Service
    4× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • IM
    International Medical Assistance Fo
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • MY
    MORGANTON YOUTH ROBOTICS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • RA
    REACHING AVERY MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
2
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
3
Collegespring Inc

In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…

Education
4
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
5
Center for the Future of Learning

The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…

Education
6
Alamance Community College Foundation

The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.

7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
10
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
11
Community Building Initiative

The mission of Community Building Initiative (CBI) is to give people and organizations the knowledge, skills and courage to fight bias, remove barriers to opportunity and build a more equitable and just CharlotteMecklenburg. CBI envisions…

Community Improvement
12
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCarolinas Philanthropic Org…Independent & Charter Schoo…Performing Arts Organizatio…Homelessness & Housing Supp…Youth Empowerment ProgramsEconomic Opportunity & Work…
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 29 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%4%<5yr20%19%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr12%30%20–35yr8%15%35–55yr8%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%3%<5yr20%13%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr12%12%20–35yr8%7%35–55yr8%40%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
21%
1,399/6,550

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

30 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 52 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

First Presbyterian Church — $26,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian ChurchInternational Medical Assistance Fo — $25,000 · OtherInternational Medical Assistance FoWomens Philanthropy Institute — $18,000 · OtherWomens Philanthropy InstituteWee Kirk Church — $11,500 · OtherWee Kirk ChurchIndividual grant recipient — $4,500 · OtherNovant Health Foundation — $4,250 · Other+24 more — $26,500 · Other+24 moreCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNT…LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · EducationLINVILLE FOUNDA…Women Executives for Community Service — $5,500 · EducationWomen Executive…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO CO…Indiana University Foundation — $1,000 · EducationNest Academy Inc — $1,000 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationWomens Impact Fund — $20,000 · Human ServicesWomens Impac…REACHING AVERY MINISTRY — $1,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Charlotte — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $750 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEADERSHI…CHARLOTTE BALLET — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE…The Arts Empowerment Project Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts …FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $12,300 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 · HealthCare Ring Inc — $1,500 · HealthCarolina Breast Friends Inc — $600 · HealthEcho Foundation — $1,000 · Civil RightsTHE LOVEBOLT — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$115,750Education$28,000Human Services$22,750Arts & Culture$16,500Philanthropy$12,300Health$7,100Civil Rights$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWomens Impact Fund — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $12,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWomen Executives for Community Service — $5,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCare Ring Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING AVERY MINISTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVEBOLT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNest Academy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Charlotte — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlaying For Others — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Community Transitions — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Central Carolinas Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC37.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem 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 Bailey Chipps Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Bailey Chipps Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bailey Chipps Family Foundation 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 52 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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