· Private foundation
The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE MARVIN AND HELENE GRALNICK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION CASHIERS INC | $227,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU INC | $40,000 |
| GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD | $5,000 |
| THE LEARNING COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $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 (FY20–24, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +141% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- VCVISION CASHIERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +257% · 41% of their budget
- BGBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $317k · revenue +20%
- GRGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- FLFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
- TVTHE VILLAGE GREENone grant, 2023 · $15k
- CACASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Support of Vance Charter School, a North Carolina public charter school.
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
Operation of a public charter school.
Preschool education and daycare, ages one to four
Operation of volunteer fire department in craven county, north carolina
Operation of a public charter school.
Cape Fear Montessori Village operates the Island Montessori Charter School, a K-8 public charter elementary school committed to enabling children to learn and grow at their own pace by offering a developmentally appropriate and challenging…
Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.
Provide fire and rescue services in the lake lure and bills creek area of rutherford county nc
Fire and emergency services
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
To provide First Responder and Fire Department Services for Pamlico County NC
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village Green of Cashiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 GOODVIBE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Village Green of Cashiers Inc ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULLOWHEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MARINE APPLIED RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION ↗
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: A Friends Foundation Trust · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Sneed Family Foundation · Leadership Legacy Life Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Tickle Family Foundation · Litowitz Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc
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 Marvin and Helene Gralnick 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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.
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