· Private foundation
The Hurley-Trammell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Hurley-Trammell Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Foundation For The Carolinas, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Hurley-Trammell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| POPS AT THE POST | $10,000 |
| ROWAN LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROWAN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL | $250 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS | $200 |
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 (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE7× · 2018–2025 · $513k · revenue +383%
- RHROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +78%
- WUWinthrop University Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RSROWAN-SALISBURY SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $79k
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
Operation of a public charter school
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
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 preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
To cultivate, inspire, and transform our students in a nurturing, yet challenging, educational environment to become the managers and leaders organizations need right now.
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
To maintain and enhance the quality of life, including economic development, in roane state's service area by developing friends and raising funds for the support of educational, cultural and service goals of roane state community college.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Rowan County and the most unlike its peers is Lee Street Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 68 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds POPS AT THE POST INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INC ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER GUARDIANS INC ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST 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: Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · Ketner Foundation Inc · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · The Bernheim Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Brady 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 Hurley-Trammell 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.
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