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· Private foundation
THE JERRY R LICARI FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$63k
Granted FY2024
13
Grants
6
Communities
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$192kInternational$126kArts & Culture$43kHuman Services$16kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$6kEmployment$500Other$75k
02FY2024 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNTOLD$24,000
- THE SAMBURU PROJECT$10,000
- WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
- RUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMAN$5,000
- ROOF ABOVE$5,000
- NOWRUSH UP$3,000
- PHILABUNDANCE$3,000
- GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER FOR HOMELESS$3,000
- HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
- PROJECT LIFE MOVEMENT$1,000
- MOVEMENT MIGRATION$1,000
- HOUSE OF MERCY INC$1,000
- THE FABRIC WORKSHOP & MUSEUM$500
02The need
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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 (FY19–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$439k · 14 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
8
Total granted
$439k
$24k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+66%
+15%
Still filing today
71%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
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
- UUNTOLD8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +172%
- TSTHE SAMBURU PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +44%
ROOF ABOVE5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +272%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GGGLOBAL GIVINGone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +15%
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.
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Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc
Established in 1980, the food bank of central & eastern north carolina is among the largest anti-hunger organizations in the united states. we work every day to provide food to people in need while advancing long-term solutions to end…
Food & Nutrition
2
North Carolina Community
North carolina community development initiative is a statewide public- private partnership that provides leadership and capital investment to high-performance community development corporations (cdcs) as well as other comminity based…
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3
Feeding Charlotte Inc
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
Food & Nutrition
4
Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust
The greater charlotte cultural trust manages charitable permanent funds in support of the arts & science council charlotte/mecklenburg and its cultural partners.
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5
North Carolina Stage Company
To provide professional theatre and arts education programs to western north carolina.
Arts & Culture
6
North Carolina Forever
To be a consensus based organization whose mission is to educate the citizens of north carolina and to advocate for state funding related thereto, the need to conserve and protect north carolina's land and waters, for the purpose of making…
Environment
7
For Charlotte Inc
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Religion
8
Cultural Voice of North Carolina
Provide Calendars and Reviews of NC Arts
Arts & Culture
9
Uplift
Education
10
Charlotte City Market
Charlotte city market is organized and operated in uptown charlotte, north carolina exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, small business incubation, access to fresh, locally sourced food and community wellness. charlotte…
Health
11
Uptown Farmers Market
Our mission is to engage our neighbors around locally grown, fresh foods to support local farmers and food artisans, educate on healthy eating, and eliminate food insecurity in our charlotte community.
Food & Nutrition
12
Nourishnyc I Inc
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Nourish Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$192,000International$125,500Other$74,500Arts & Culture$43,000Human Services$16,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$6,000Employment$500
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 UNTOLD ↗
- Who funds THE SAMBURU PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds PHILABUNDANCE ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT MIGRATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds PATIENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION OF CANCER SPECIALISTS OF NORTH FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE FABRIC WORKSHOP & MUSEUM ↗
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.
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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 JERRY R LICARI 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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: THE SAMBURU PROJECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 203541982 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 THE SAMBURU PROJECT, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% 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 Jerry R Licari Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Jerry R Licari 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines