· Private foundation
Et Rollins Jr & Frances P Rollins 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| NC SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| CAROLINA BALLET | $20,000 |
| DURHAM RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| DURHAM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NC ARTS IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| SENIOR PHARM ASSIST INC | $5,000 |
| UNC BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NC INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - DURHAM COUNTY | $1,921 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of your 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 +43% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $649k · revenue +51%- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +28%
CAROLINA BALLET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -54%
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY - NASHER MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
(1) to bring together singers and audiences who share a common interest in high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions; (2) to establish and maintain…
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
North carolina wesleyan university, a private institution affiliated with the united methodist church, prepares students for professional advancement, life-long learning, and responsible participation in their communities.
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…
The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.
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…
See schedule o for organization's mission statement.
To support and sustain breakthrough research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Senior Pharmassist Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL 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: Fox Family Foundation Inc · Duke University · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University Health System Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Et Rollins Jr & Frances P Rollins 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.