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The Junior League of Charlotte Inc

The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$71kCommunity Improvement$39kHuman Services$32kHealth$27kFood & Nutrition$23kCrime & Legal$19kPhilanthropy$14k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $32,669, the rows itemized in this filing. The $56,013 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,344 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,040
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thompson Child and Family$9,965
SchermCo$8,040
Classroom Central Inc$7,500
Renaissance West Community$7,164
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF CHARLOTTE REGION: $8k → 10%PROJECT 658: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 9 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$180k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+16%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • D
    Digi-Bridge
    4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +373%
  • SH
    Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +74%
  • TC
    THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PP
    Promising Pages Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +16%
  • MC
    MECKLENBURG COUNTY HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • FF
    Families Forward Charlotte Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
3
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
4
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
5
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
6
Share Charlotte

SHARE Charlotte is building a better Charlotte by empowering nonprofits and helping people invest in their communities in ways that matter most to them.

Community Improvement
7
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
8
Center for Prevention Services

To promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care.

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9
Families First in Cabarrus County

To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…

Human Services
10
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
11
Black Child Development Institute-Carolinas

"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."

Education
12
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Foundation. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance West Community: $32,544 · OtherRenaissance West CommunityTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $20,965 · OtherTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INCThe Center for Community Transitions: $18,500 · OtherThe Center for Community TransitionsMECKLENBURG COUNTY: $13,798 · OtherMECKLENBURG COUNTYPromising Pages Inc: $7,000 · OtherPromising Pages IncMECKLENBURG COUNTY HEALTH: $6,000 · OtherMECKLENBURG COUNTY HEALTHDigi-Bridge: $26,023 · EducationDigi-BridgeCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $18,500 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INCSchermCo Foundation: $8,040 · EducationSchermCo FoundationALLEGRO FOUNDATION: $14,000 · PhilanthropyALLEGRO FOUN…FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $11,432 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION F…HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $13,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE & PA…Families Forward Charlotte Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesFamilies For…Project 658 Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesProject 658 …Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $22,500 · Food & NutritionSecond Harv…
Other$98,807Education$52,563Philanthropy$25,432Human Services$24,000Food & Nutrition$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDigi-Bridge: $26,023 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $20,965 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Community Transitions: $18,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGRO FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $11,432 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchermCo Foundation: $8,040 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetPromising Pages Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject 658 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Albemarle FoundationDuke Energy FoundationCharlotte Woman's Clu…The Presbyterian Hosp…Mecklenburg Partnersh…Merancas Foundation I…Ally Charitable Found…The Leon Levine Found…The Cannon Foundation…Truist Foundation Inc
Foundation for the CarolinasNC20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · The Presbyterian Hospital · Mecklenburg Partnership for Children · Merancas Foundation Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Junior League of Charlotte Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Junior League of Charlotte Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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