How much did THE IRWIN BELK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE IRWIN BELK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 43 grants

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

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$292k

Total assets

Largest grants

FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS$60,000
FRIENDS OF CAMEO$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
MYSTIC SEAPORT$5,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$5,000
JUNEAU MOUNTAIN RESCUE INC$4,000
SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$4,000
NORTHWEST SECTION OF THE NINETY NINES$4,000
ST HELENA FARMER MARKET$4,000
NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY$4,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$4,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$408k · 31 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$408k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+154%

Still filing today

42%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

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THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +37%
NA
NIMBUS ARTS
2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +27%
SC
SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +44%

Funded once

IF
INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k
CS
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTMANDS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $4k
AC
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-CHARLOTTE
one grant, 2017 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Museum of Life &

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.

Arts & Culture

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the nc zoo society is to champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future. the nc zoo society is your bridge to more than a zoo visit. we make you a partner in the zoo's global…

Animals

Core Sound Waterfowl Museum

To support & preserve the way of life of coastal maritime communities in the central coastal region of eastern north carolina

Arts & Culture

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The virginia museum of fine arts foundation (foundation) was founded in 1976 to support the virginia museum of fine arts (museum), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. to accomplish its mission, the foundation administers a…

Arts & Culture

The North Carolina Aquarium Society

Inspiring appreciation and conservation of our aquatic environments.

Animals

South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

New Orleans Museum of Art

To inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge, and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture

Museum of the Marine

Carolina museum of the marine is building a 25,000 square foot facility honoring the legacy of carolina marines and sailors and to inspire future generations.

Arts & Culture

Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation

The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean. Millions of people worldwide draw inspiration from the Aquarium and look to us to advocate for the ocean and its wildlife.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of the New South Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speedway Children's Charities. 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 28 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,536

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.

04the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

19/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$386,000Arts & Culture$48,000Education$14,000Environment$10,000Public Benefit$8,000Human Services$6,000Philanthropy$6,000

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.

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIGHT OPERA OF NEW YORK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205086861 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LIGHT OPERA OF NEW YORK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Irwin Belk Educational Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Irwin Belk Educational Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE IRWIN BELK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Irwin Belk Educational Foundation?

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THE IRWIN BELK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Irwin Belk Educational Foundation?

More from the funding graph