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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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
190
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEducation$768kHuman Services$759kHousing & Shelter$470kArts & Culture$408kHealth$383kYouth Development$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 190 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$103
Median grant
28
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PILGRIM$1,500
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION$1,500
THE PIEDMONT TRIAD CHURCH INC$1,500
Rethink Priorities$1,500
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC$1,500
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints$1,500
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rethink Priorities: $2k → 10%LUV MICHAEL INC: $36 → 6%SWEET DREAM IN A BAG: $310 → 8%OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE: $25 → 8%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $308 → 11%LORAY GIRLS HOME INC: $257 → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%HOPE VIBES INC: $30k → 8%HOPE VIBES INC: $25k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $51 → 12%DENVER DIACONAL CONFERENCE INC: $1k → 12%FOOTPRINTS OF FIGHT: $26 → 9%World Food Programme: $436 → 14%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%INREACH: $103 → 10%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH INC: $25k → 10%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $5k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $128 → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $125k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $125k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $125k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS INC: $512 → 10%BRAVEWORKS: $50 → 10%VALENTINES DAY WIDOW OUTREACH: $100 → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE INC: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 14 repeat orgs$941k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
27

Total granted

$5.1M
$873k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

86%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • DR
    Dottie Rose Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $378k · revenue +141% · 44% of their budget
  • CW
    Common Wealth Associates Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $376k · revenue +20%
  • CI
    Charlotte Is Creative
    3× · 2021–2023 · $375k · revenue +411%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    CAROLINA FINTECH HUB
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -82%
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
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

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.

Animals
2
Feeding the Carolinas

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

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.

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4
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance

Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.

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5
TreesCharlotte

Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.

Environment
6
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
7
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
8
Carolina Ballet Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster

Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster's mission is to accelerate cleantech innovation and adoption in the reseach triangle region and beyond.

Community Improvement
10
Clt Joules

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.

Civil Rights
11
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

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…

Science & Tech
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina; 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.
04the grantee network

178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/178
Grantees still filing
85/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE I…FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $758,900 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS+4 more: $6,153 · PhilanthropyDottie Rose Foundation: $377,826 · Human ServicesDottie Rose Fo…THE RELATIVES INC: $375,128 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES …HOPE VIBES INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesHOPE VIBES INC+19 more: $37,244 · Human ServicesCharlotte Is Creative: $375,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte Is …ARTPOP: $375,000 · Arts & CultureARTPOP+8 more: $31,508 · Arts & CultureCommon Wealth Associates Inc: $375,550 · EducationCommon Wealt…Digi-Bridge: $375,000 · EducationDigi-Bridge+26 more: $18,784 · EducationFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $375,000 · Community ImprovementFREEDOM COMM…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $225,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIA…CAROLINA FINTECH HUB: $125,000 · Community ImprovementCAROLINA FIN…+4 more: $18,100 · Community ImprovementIndividual grant recipient: $375,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS: $250,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF THE CA…CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $375,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE RESCUE MIS…CLT HOST 2020 INC: $65,000 · Other+117 more: $165,049 · Other+117 moreWest Side CLT: $375,300 · Housing & ShelterFurnish For Good Inc: $32,900 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $6,103 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$2,015,053Human Services$845,198Arts & Culture$781,508Education$769,334Community Improvement$743,100Other$1,230,049Housing & Shelter$414,303

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $758,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDottie Rose Foundation: $377,826 over 4y, 44% of budgetCommon Wealth Associates Inc: $375,550 over 4y, 13% of budgetWest Side CLT: $375,300 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $375,128 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCharlotte Is Creative: $375,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $375,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetDigi-Bridge: $375,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $375,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetARTPOP: $375,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA FINTECH HUB: $125,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCLT HOST 2020 INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE VIBES INC: $55,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFurnish For Good Inc: $32,900 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetGen-One Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Isabella Santos Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMoney Magnets Club: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPOTIONS & PIXELS NONPROFIT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPEACE PELOTON: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCircle De Luz Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGardHouse Limited: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTheatre Gap Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTILETTO BOSS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCharlotte Art League Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Building Initiative: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ULTIMATE ASSOCIATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIRCLE OF COMMITMENT INC: $1,542 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Now Family Rescue Co: $1,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALOR SOCCER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPilgrim Africa: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRethink Priorities: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAINING SEASON: $1,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIDGWAY FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,375 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Mission For Relief & Development: $1,303 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarvin Ridge Mavericks Athletic Booster Club Inc: $1,205 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,165 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…Foundation for the Ca…Albemarle FoundationAlly Charitable Found…Womens Impact FundTrue Homes Foundation…Merancas Foundation I…Duke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Wells Fargo FoundationCharlotte Woman's Clu…Brighthouse Financial…
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC48.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 LendingTree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The LendingTree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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 224 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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