· Private foundation
The Marsh Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS - HOUSING IMPACT FUND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $58,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $27,500 |
| THE CROSSNORE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE INC | $20,000 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $10,000 |
| CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL | $10,000 |
| ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK | $5,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $4,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA | $4,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS BEAUFORT COUNTY | $3,500 |
| THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- CCCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $260k · revenue +5%
- HFHopeWay Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +233%
Crisis Assistance Ministry6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- THTeen Health Connection Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +36%
- CFCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Allianceone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
- WKWEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $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.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
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 unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Blue Ridge Guide Association. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 58 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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Teen Health Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds TreesCharlotte ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds THE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF UNION COUNTY ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Nucor Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Philip L Van Every 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 Marsh 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% 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.