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The Mary Norris Preyer Fund at a glance

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The Mary Norris Preyer Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$298kHealth$248kEnvironment$212kYouth Development$191kEducation$142kArts & Culture$120kHousing & Shelter$115kCommunity Improvement$101kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOOKGIVE INC$5,000
DIX PARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC$5,000
SKOOKUM KIDS$5,000
YOUNG LIFE - CAPERNAUM$5,000
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION$5,000
BLUE SKY BRIDGE$5,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$5,000
HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP INC$5,000
SENIOR PHARM ASSIST INC$5,000
THE SYLVIA CENTER$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INC$5,000
AURA HOME WOMEN VETS$5,000
COMPASS CENTER$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Grace Smith House: $7k → 9%PJ PARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WORKING WHEELS: $5k → 12%CHILDRENS CENTER OF TRANSYLVANIA: $6k → 13%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%PJ PARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WORKING WHEELS: $5k → 12%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 16%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%SKOOKUM KIDS: $6k → 12%PJ PARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%Supportive Housing Communities Inc: $5k → 10%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 16%Bridge House: $5k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $5k → 12%PJ PARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 13%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%Grandview Assistance Program: $7k → 15%Raleigh Rescue Mission: $7k → 8%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $6k → 12%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $5k → 12%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 9%TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 13%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 13%Intercambio De Comunidades: $5k → 12%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $3k → 8%Children's Home Society of NC: $5k → 16%Women's Wilderness Institute: $5k → 12%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $3k → 10%Greensboro Urban Ministry: $5k → 16%WOMENS WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $5k → 16%Womens Wilderness Institute: $5k → 12%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $4k → 16%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 12%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $3k → 16%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $6k → 10%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $6k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%Beds for Kids: $7k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES INC: $5k → 10%CAROLINA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AGENCY INC: $5k → 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
ID
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
NC
SC
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 101 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

101 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
62

Total granted

$1.5M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+53%

Still filing today

79%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    THE CONTINGENT
    3× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +182%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +59%
  • CB
    Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center
    6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • SF
    San Francisco General Hospital Fdtn
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • PN
    PTA NC CONGRESSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +46%
  • GA
    GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +59%
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
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
4
CleanAIRE Nc

To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.

Environment
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
7
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
10
Dress for Success Charlotte

A womens advancement center, the mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to thrive in work and in life. Programs and…

Human Services
11
Blueprint North Carolina

The Organization is a partnership of public policy, advocacy and grassroots organizing nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina through the development of an integrated communications and civic…

Education
12
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Nccadv leads the state's movement to end domestic violence and to enhance work with survivors through collaborations, innovative trainings, prevention, technical assistance, state policy development and legal advocacy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Simply Girls Incorporated. 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

128 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. 128 of the 178 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/128
Grantees still filing
89/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CONTINGENT: $49,500 · OtherBLUE WATER FOUNDATION: $32,500 · Other+101 more: $867,500 · Other+101 moreAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Famili…CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 · Human ServicesCITY HOPE SAN FRAN…Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home So…PARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Human ServicesPARARESCUE FOUNDAT…GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $19,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO URBAN M…TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $16,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Human ServicesGardHouse Limited: $11,000 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $11,000 · Human ServicesSkookum Kids: $11,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $11,000 · Human Services+15 more: $103,000 · Human Services+15 moreSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC: $28,000 · HealthSENIOR PH…FREEDOM HOUSE: $25,000 · HealthFREEDOM H…Our Voice Inc: $21,500 · HealthOur Voice…MENTAL HEALTH HEROES: $21,500 · HealthMENTAL HE…HealthReach Community Clinic: $16,000 · HealthHealthRea…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED P…THE APHASIA NETWORK: $10,000 · HealthTHE APHAS…DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $10,000 · HealthDENTAL LI…SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $9,000 · HealthSHELTER H…Sistas Caring 4 Sistas Inc: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC: $29,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $26,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $25,000 · EnvironmentThe North Carolina Arboretum Society: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentKingston Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc: $7,000 · EnvironmentUNDERSTORY INITIATIVE: $5,000 · EnvironmentDogwood Alliance Inc: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentArts For Life: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKIDZNOTES INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureTIME & SPACE LIMITED THEATRE COMPANY INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMOTUS THEATER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGE 62: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLittle Lake Theatre Company: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $9,200 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Empowerment Project Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $32,500 · EducationREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS: $26,000 · EducationThe Learning Collaborative: $20,000 · EducationCarolina Day School Inc: $10,000 · EducationResources for Resilience: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationUKRAINE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationBookGive Inc: $5,000 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $46,500 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$949,500Human Services$309,000Health$162,000Environment$144,000Arts & Culture$133,200Education$117,500Youth Development$82,500

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 budgetTHE CONTINGENT: $49,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE WATER FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $32,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC: $29,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS: $26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetArts For Life: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOur Voice Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH HEROES: $21,500 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWINGPALS INC: $17,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHealthReach Community Clinic: $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $16,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: $15,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe North Carolina Arboretum Society: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOULOS MINISTRIES INC DBA SHELTERWOOD: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGardHouse Limited: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCULTIVATE INITIATIVES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTIME & SPACE LIMITED THEATRE COMPANY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ca…The Community Foundat…The Cannon Foundation…United Way of Greater…Dogwood Health TrustHillsdale FundWomens Impact FundZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Duke Energy FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC38.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Hillsdale Fund · Womens Impact Fund · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc

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 Mary Norris Preyer Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Norris Preyer Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Understory Initiative: 36% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School: 7% of income from government
  • The Contingent: 5% of income from government
  • Cultivate Initiatives: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Mary Norris Preyer Fund 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 178 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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