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The Lovett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$143kArts & Culture$140kHousing & Shelter$74kHealth$41kYouth Development$26kEnvironment$18kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOOKMARKS$10,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$5,000
CITY WITH DWELLINGS$5,000
TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY FARM$4,000
IMPRINTS CASES$3,500
LEAD GIRLS OF NC$3,500
LEARNING TOGETHER$3,267
OUT AT THE MOVIES$3,040
HEART MATH TUTORING$3,000
TRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS$3,000
THE DWELLING$3,000
THE HAVEN OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY$3,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$2,829
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NC$2,784
KALEIDEUM$2,700
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HISPANIC LIASON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $3k → 9%RAIN INC: $3k → 10%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%THE HAVEN OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY: $3k → 13%INTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION: $3k → 17%LEARNING TOGETHER: $3k → 8%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%LEARNING TOGETHER INC: $3k → 8%THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 16%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%GREENEST: $4k → 15%GREENEST: $3k → 15%GREENEST: $3k → 15%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
NY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
GA

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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$355k · 31 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
67

Total granted

$355k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

84%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • BI
    BOOKMARKS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +8%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +45%
  • TS
    The Summit School Incorporated
    7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • RW
    READ WS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PL
    PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • J1
    JUNE 10 INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -46%

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.

1
Longleaf School of the Arts

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
2
The Piedmont Arts Association

To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts

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3
Wilmington School of the Arts

Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…

Education
4
Wake Preparatory Academy

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school

Education
5
Partnership for Art at the Core of Education

To operate a public charter school.

Education
6
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
7
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
8
River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education
9
Triangle Education Organization

Operate a Public Charter School.

Education
10
The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte

To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.

Arts & Culture
11
The Expedition School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
12
Wilson Preparatory Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart Math Tutoring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%6%<5yr17%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr11%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%4%<5yr17%14%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr14%41%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
16%
4,034/24,841

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

64 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. 64 of the 104 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOOKMARKS INC — $67,500 · EducationBOOKMARKS INCWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYThe Summit School Incorporated — $39,500 · EducationThe Summit School IncorporatedCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC — $6,344 · Education+7 more — $21,400 · Education+7 moreDance Project Inc — $10,495 · OtherDance Project IncMOORE MAGNET SCHOOL — $6,180 · OtherTHE DWELLING — $6,000 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA — $5,804 · OtherDOWNTOWN SCHOOL PTO — $5,724 · OtherTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $12,339 · OtherTransplanting Traditions Community…CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA — $5,784 · OtherChanged Choices Inc — $5,620 · Other+53 more — $94,659 · Other+53 moreArts For Life — $12,000 · Arts & CultureArts For Lif…THE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC — $9,399 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE T…NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLI…PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE OF BURNSVILLE — $5,500 · Arts & CulturePARKWAY PLAY…BREATHING ACCESS — $4,500 · Arts & CultureBREATHING AC…OUT OF HAND THEATER — $3,800 · Arts & CultureOUT OF HAND …OUT at the Movies — $3,040 · Arts & CultureOUT at the M…TRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTRIAD PRIDE …KALEIDEUM — $2,700 · Arts & CultureSPRING THEATRE — $2,525 · Arts & CultureAsheville Symphony Society Inc — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,750 · Arts & CultureCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY WITH…WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $12,400 · Housing & ShelterWESTERN C…JUNE 10 INC — $4,997 · Housing & ShelterJUNE 10 I…GREENEST — $10,354 · Human ServicesGREENESTLEARNING TOGETHER INC — $6,267 · Human ServicesLEARNING …KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,405 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN I…The Haven of Transylvania County — $3,000 · Human ServicesThe Haven…INTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION — $3,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAI…RAIN Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesRAIN IncHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $2,596 · Human ServicesHISPANIC …EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesEAST WAKE…THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $2,321 · Human ServicesTHE INTER…THE OUTREACH CENTER — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,200 · Human ServicesLEAD Girls of NC Inc — $13,100 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC — $9,727 · Youth DevelopmentME FINE FOUNDATION — $5,050 · HealthPartners Aligned Toward Health — $5,000 · HealthHelene Foundation — $3,000 · HealthTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC — $2,500 · Health
Education$174,744Other$152,605Arts & Culture$55,714Housing & Shelter$42,397Human Services$40,643Youth Development$22,827Health$15,550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOOKMARKS INC — $67,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated — $39,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc — $13,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $12,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $12,339 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetArts For Life — $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDance Project Inc — $10,495 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGREENEST — $10,354 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSWINGPALS INC — $9,727 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC — $9,399 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC — $6,344 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING TOGETHER INC — $6,267 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA — $5,804 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA — $5,784 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChanged Choices Inc — $5,620 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARKWAY PLAYHOUSE OF BURNSVILLE — $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetME FINE FOUNDATION — $5,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPartners Aligned Toward Health — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNE 10 INC — $4,997 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,405 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $4,214 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUT OF HAND THEATER — $3,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPIEDMONT FOREST SCHOOL — $3,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUT at the Movies — $3,040 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Haven of Transylvania County — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS — $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Together — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAIN Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHelene Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKALEIDEUM — $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENDERSONVILLE THEATRE — $2,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRiverLink Inc — $2,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $2,596 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORD OF FAITH MINISTRIES OF KENANSV — $2,571 over 1y, 33% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $2,321 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OUTREACH CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…Reynolds American Fou…Ta John W and Anna H …The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…James G Hanes Memoria…Duke Energy FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…The Kooken Family Fou…Carolinas Credit Unio…Foundation for the Ca…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC48.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Kooken Family Foundation · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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 Lovett 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Lovett Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lovett 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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