· Private foundation
The LendingTree Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALENTED GIRLS IN ACTION - TGIA | $3,000 |
| DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION | $2,826 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $1,925 |
| NORTHWEST ULTIMATE ASSOCIATION | $1,750 |
| WHITAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIRCLE OF COMMITMENT INC | $1,542 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,528 |
| FORGOTTEN NOW FAMILY RESCUE CO | $1,525 |
| Rethink Priorities | $1,500 |
| Valor Soccer | $1,500 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC | $1,500 |
| THE PIEDMONT TRIAD CHURCH INC | $1,500 |
| SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION | $1,500 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | $1,500 |
| PILGRIM | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $844k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 182 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- DRDottie Rose Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $378k · revenue +141% · 44% of their budget
- CWCommon Wealth Associates Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $376k · revenue +20%
- AARTPOP3× · 2021–2023 · $375k · revenue +5% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINASone grant, 2022 · $250k
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +6%- CFCAROLINA FINTECH HUBone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -82%
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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster's mission is to accelerate cleantech innovation and adoption in the reseach triangle region and beyond.
CLT Joules is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working with utilities, industry, municipalities, universities and R&D institutions to identify, advise, connect and deploy cleantech startups with Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is West Side Clt. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
178 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. 178 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds Dottie Rose Foundation ↗
- Who funds Common Wealth Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds West Side CLT ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTPOP ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Digi-Bridge ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Is Creative ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FINTECH HUB ↗
- Who funds CLT HOST 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VIBES INC ↗
- Who funds Furnish For Good Inc ↗
- Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds Right Moves for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Gen-One Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds Grooming Greatness ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Money Magnets Club ↗
- Who funds The Isabella Santos Foundation ↗
- Who funds Circle De Luz Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Art League Inc ↗
- Who funds GardHouse Limited ↗
- Who funds GREEN BOX SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds POTIONS & PIXELS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds THRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STILETTO BOSS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEACE PELOTON ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre Gap Initiative ↗
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: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · True Homes Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Brighthouse Financial 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 LendingTree 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The LendingTree Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The LendingTree Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.