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The Furr Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $7k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECU EDUCTION FOUNDATION | $160,751 |
| CEDARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,750 |
| ST MARYS OF THE HILLS | $1,100 |
| CHAPEL OF THE CROSS | $650 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $500 |
| PORCH | $300 |
| ACTBLUE | $250 |
| BLOWING ROCK ART AND HISTORY MUSEUM | $250 |
| HUNGER & HEALTH COALITION | $200 |
| GOODFELLOWS | $200 |
| DUKE CANCER CENTER | $100 |
| UNC HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $100 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $100 |
| ROTARY CLUB | $50 |
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, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 69% of The Furr 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, 98% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 30% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +177% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- EEECU EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $33k
- SMST MARY'S PARISH3× · 2019–2021 · $20k
- COCHAPEL OF THE CROSS2× · 2020–2022 · $8k
Funded once
- CECEDARS EMPLOYEE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SPST PETER'S PARISHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- BRBLOWING ROCK VILLAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…
Loudoun hunger relief is committed to eliminating food insecurity by providing access to nutritious food, building community connections, and expanding educational opportunities.
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Provide food at no cost to hungry people in need in avery county, nc and improve their health where possible
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.
Table delivers healthy food and provides nutrition education to food insecure children living in orange county, nc to support their accessibility and knowledge of healthy food and eating habits.
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Episcopal Relief and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 52 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 THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PORCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PORCH-Durham ↗
- Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Furr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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