· Private foundation
The Grace and Hope Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k19 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP CANAAN | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| SERVANT'S HEART OF MINT HILL | $125,000 |
| MATTHEWS HELP CENTER | $125,000 |
| CHRIST OUR SHEPHERD MINISTRY | $60,000 |
| LEARNING HELP CENTERS CHARLOTTE | $7,000 |
| BRACE FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE UNV CITY | $5,000 |
| BLESSED ASSURANCE ADULT DAY | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT OF UNION COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MISSIONARY ATHLETES INTERNATION | $5,000 |
| ARBORBROOK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PLAYING FOR OTHERS | $5,000 |
| HANDS FOR HOLLY FUND | $5,000 |
| MEPHIBOSHETH FARMS ANGELIC RIDE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
- CCCamp Canaan4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +229% · 33% of their budget
- MHMATTHEWS HELP CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $146k · revenue +141%
- SHServants Heart of Mint Hill Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $141k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- RERainbow Express Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +67%
- P2Project 2 Healgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +87%
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 Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
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.
Christian Berets is a nondenominational ministry serving the mentally and physically disabled and their families by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ primarily through camping programs to help meet their emotional, physical, and spiritual…
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Project 2 Heal. 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 29 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 Camp Canaan ↗
- Who funds MATTHEWS HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Servants Heart of Mint Hill Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds HANDS FOR HOLLY MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Playing For Others ↗
- Who funds COMMON HEART INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MEPHIBOSETH FARMS ANGELIC RIDERS ↗
- Who funds Changed Choices Inc ↗
- Who funds KinderMourn Inc ↗
- Who funds Missionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc ↗
- Who funds Lois Lodge Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds Arborbrook Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Express Ministries ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Ministries ↗
- Who funds BABY BUNDLES ↗
- Who funds Project 2 Heal ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · True Homes Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Grace and Hope Foundation Inc 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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