· Private foundation
The Marcotte Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD | $100,000 |
| LASSONDE ART TRAIL FOUNDATION | $90,832 |
| FOOD CONNECTIONS INC | $90,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $12,009 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO (NPR) | $10,000 |
| NC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA | $5,350 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION TRUST OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,150 |
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 (FY17–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +100% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- FCFOOD CONNECTION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +103%
ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $146k · revenue +75%- ODOpen Doors of Asheville Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- YOYWCA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $250k
- GVGWYNN VALLEY CAMPERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MJMICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONSone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
To tackle the accelerating crisis of climate change by working to transition nc to clean, efficient energy & by watch-dogging utility practices. we pursue this work through grassroots activism, technical analysis, legal challenges and…
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is Nueva Generacion. 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 35 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 83 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
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 FOOD CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NUEVA GENERACION ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Truist Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · John Rex Endowment
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 Marcotte Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.