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The Britton 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 $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION | $10,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $7,000 |
| HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE BASCOM CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $5,000 |
| HUDSON LIBRARY | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -69% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MOMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES4× · 2019–2022 · $90k · revenue +6%
- HLHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +97%
- HBHighlands Biological Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- MCMISSION COMMUNITY PRIMARY CAREone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HCHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -69%
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +84%
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.
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.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.
The Alliance For Historic Hillsborough has a mission to inspire visitors and residents to experience authentic Hillsborough.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts
Highpoint Center for Printmaking is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. We create pathways for artists, learners, and the public to increase their understanding and appreciation of printmaking through artistic and educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mint Museum of Art Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Peters Episcopal Church Endowment Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOEDANCE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Hospice House Foundation of WNC 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Leona S Hudson Charitable Foundation · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Britton 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.
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