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The Hudson 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $278,017 |
| CHATHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $70,000 |
| UNC SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $30,000 |
| NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN NC | $10,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN NC | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| DURHAM RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TKTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +80%
Chatham Habitat for Humanity Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +5%- UWUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $137k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - HURRICANE RELIEF WESTERN NCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - HURRICANE FLORENCE RELIEFone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
To unite people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good in horry county
Helping homeless men by providing a safe shelter and meeting their basic needs as well as address barriers related to homelessness and self-sufficiency and helping homeless men to obtain and maintain more appropriate housing.
United Way envisions a community of opportunity where everyone has hope and can reach their full potential. United Way's mission is to solve Northeast Florida's toughest challenges by connecting people, resources and ideas.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
United way of champaign county brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community.
To eradicate poverty and to increase social mobility through the power of partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Martin County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christmas House 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 32 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 KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chatham Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Christmas House Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DELOITTE FOUNDATION ↗
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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Hudson 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.
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 3% 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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