· Private foundation
The Irwin Belk Educational Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k38 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN | $9,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BERMUDA MARITIME | $8,500 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT | $5,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $4,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| DAWN REDWOOD TRUST | $4,000 |
| JUNEAU MOUNTAIN RESCUE INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 23% of The Irwin Belk Educational 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TLTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +37%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +46%
- EUEmory University2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTMANDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -83%
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.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 59 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 THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NIMBUS ARTS ↗
- Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU MOUNTAIN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Marin Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Irwin Belk Educational 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.
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated — 2% 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.