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The Foundation for Do Inc at a glance

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The Foundation for Do Inc

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.

$2k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$8kHealth$7kEducation$4kHuman Services$3kInternational$3kHousing & Shelter$2kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
BEST-NC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 8%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

MN
NY
CA
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
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 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
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
7
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
8
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
9
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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10
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
11
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

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12
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stronger Than Ever. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF DURHAM-CH: $5,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF DURHAM-CHNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALLHEAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherALLHEAR FOUNDATION INCTHE HOPE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherTHE HOPE CENTERNC FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CHI: $1,000 · OtherNC FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CHIUT MD ANDERSON HOSPITAL: $1,000 · OtherUT MD ANDERSON HOSPITALHOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAM: $1,000 · OtherHOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZARIKI NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherZARIKI NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOLHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $750 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $1,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLI…BEREA COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEG…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH F…STRONGER THAN EVER: $1,000 · InternationalSTRONGER THA…QUESTSCOPE LTD: $1,000 · InternationalQUESTSCOPE L…CAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC: $1,000 · InternationalCAROLINA FOR…METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$17,250Education$3,000International$3,000Health$2,000Human Services$1,000Philanthropy$1,000Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONGER THAN EVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUESTSCOPE LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation for Do Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Do Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Foundation for Do Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Foundation for Do Inc 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 22 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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