· Private foundation
The Belk 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $150,000 |
| CMS FOUNDATION (NBCT & TLP) | $125,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE (TUTORING) | $122,439 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $120,462 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
| HEART MATH TUTORING INC | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF METROLINA INC | $80,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $72,018 |
| NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE-CAROLINAS | $68,000 |
| URBANPROMISE CHARLOTTE | $65,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG INC | $60,000 |
| FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERS INC | $50,000 |
| OURBRIDGE INC | $50,000 |
| CMS FOUNDATION (TEACHER RESIDENCY) | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $675k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Belk Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $758k 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
- HMHeart Math Tutoring Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $510k · revenue +155%
- UCUrbanPromise Charlotte7× · 2019–2025 · $433k · revenue +298%
- CFCMS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NLNEW LEADERS INCone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -28%
- NCNorth Carolina Department of Public Instructionone grant, 2019 · $100k
- TITNTP INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%
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.
To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.
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…
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
Operation of a public charter school.
The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.
Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…
North carolina charter educational foundation is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the foundation is comprised of respected leaders in the state of north carolina who are committed to…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
Great schools north carolina (gsnc) was founded to remove barriers to success for both existing and new public charter schools across the state. gsnc supports leaders with strategic funding and collaborative partnerships to increase access…
NCAIS promotes educational excellence and empowers member schools to thrive in pursuit of their missions. Our core commitments are to provide leading-edge educational opportunities communities of colleagues guidance in school leadership…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps and the most unlike its peers is Black Child Development Institute-Carolinas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 99 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds UrbanPromise Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds International House of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ourBRIDGE Inc ↗
- Who funds Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LATINX EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGILEARN DIGITAL LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · Gates Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Barnhill Family Foundation · The Goodnight Educational Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · 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 Belk 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.