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The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$317kHuman Services$197kHealth$105kArts & Culture$72kEnvironment$55kFood & Nutrition$49kRecreation & Sports$43kHousing & Shelter$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$488k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGHAVEN$9,000
THE SHARON AT SOUTHPARK$7,000
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY$5,000
CHARLOTTE 49ERS AGC$5,000
NOURISH UP$3,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$3,000
LYNWOOD FOUNDATION$2,500
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$2,500
CHEROKEE CREEK BOYS SCHOOL$2,500
BRAHM$2,500
A ROOF ABOVE$2,000
QUEENS UNIV OF CHARLOTTE$2,000
PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Casa Support Council for Pima County Inc: $1k → 15%4Word: $2k → 14%4 WORD: $2k → 14%4 WORD: $2k → 14%The Casa Support Council for Pima County Inc: $500 → 15%4Word: $1k → 14%4Word: $1k → 14%4Word: $1k → 14%4Word: $500 → 14%NOURISH UP: $3k → 10%Greater Enrichment Program: $1k → 10%NOURISH UP: $1k → 10%Southminster Foundation: $1k → 10%Southminster Foundation: $1k → 10%SOUTHMINSTER: $1k → 10%Southminster Foundation: $1k → 10%Southminster Foundation: $1k → 10%SOUTHMINSTER: $1k → 10%BABY BUNDLES: $2k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $500 → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $500 → 10%BABY BUNDLES: $500 → 10%Beds for Kids: $500 → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $2k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $2k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $2k → 10%Safe Alliance: $1k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $1k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $1k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $1k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $1k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministries: $1k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $2k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $1k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $1k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $1k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
UT
KY
WV
VA
AZ
NC
SC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$895k · 104 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
41

Total granted

$895k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

58%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +65%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +51%
  • CL
    CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • US
    Union Seminary Currie Scholarship
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • UA
    UNCC Athletic Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
For Charlotte Inc

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

Religion
3
Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services
4
Sustain Charlotte Inc

Sustain Charlotte's mission is to create a more equitable, connected, and healthy community by inspiring responsible growth and transportation choices.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
7
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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8
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
9
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
10
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
11
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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12
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region; the most unlike its peers is Time Out Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/80
Grantees still filing
51/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $57,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJr Achievement of the Central Carolinas: $32,000 · OtherJr Achievement of the Central CarolinasIndividual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherUnion Presbyterian Seminary: $24,000 · OtherCharlotte 49'ers Athletic Foundation: $23,000 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $21,000 · Other+105 more: $377,200 · Other+105 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $23,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE LATIN S…Queens University of Charlotte: $22,000 · EducationQueens University…ASBURY COLLEGE: $21,000 · EducationASBURY COLLEGEMyers Park High School Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationMyers Park High S…CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $13,500 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL…PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $9,000 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCATION …Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $7,000 · Education+6 more: $17,000 · Education+6 moreCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $33,500 · HealthCHARLOTTE…Teen Health Connection Inc: $18,000 · HealthTeen Heal…The Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $10,500 · HealthThe Joe M…HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $5,000 · HealthHOSPITALI…Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $4,500 · HealthCharlotte…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+5 more: $6,000 · Health+5 moreNourish Up: $16,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry: $11,500 · Human Services4WORD: $8,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5,500 · Human ServicesPARTNERS 4 NEW HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHMINSTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHMINSTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBABY BUNDLES: $2,000 · Human Services+4 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentCatawba Lands Conservancy: $14,000 · EnvironmentUPSTATE FOREVER: $8,500 · EnvironmentTreesCharlotte: $6,000 · EnvironmentCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM: $17,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CulturePRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $19,500 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan House Inc: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterFurnish For Good Inc: $3,300 · Housing & ShelterGreenville Housing Fund: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$563,200Education$154,500Health$80,500Human Services$59,000Environment$54,000Arts & Culture$45,500Housing & Shelter$27,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $33,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ACCION INC: $16,200 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNourish Up: $16,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMyers Park High School Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $10,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $8,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budget4WORD: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $6,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTreesCharlotte: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRIUNE MERCY CENTER: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shepherds Center of Charlotte: $5,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS 4 NEW HOPE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFive Oaks Academy PTO Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA CHILD'S PLACE OF CHARLOTTE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOWING ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDAT INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chandler School: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFurnish For Good Inc: $3,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTime Out Youth Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Teen Health Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ACCION INC ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Up ↗
  • Who funds Myers Park High School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds 4WORD ↗
  • Who funds Friendship Trays Inc ↗
  • Who funds Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…Dowd Foundation IncThe Leon Levine Found…The Dickson Foundatio…Albemarle FoundationThe Marc & Mattye Sil…Merancas Foundation I…True Homes Foundation…The Cannon Foundation…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC67.7× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · True Homes Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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