· Private foundation
The Mary Norris Preyer Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENIOR PHARM ASSIST INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| SKOOKUM KIDS | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $5,000 |
| BLUE WATER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP INC | $5,000 |
| ARTS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| ADA JENKINS CENTER | $5,000 |
| REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS | $5,000 |
| HAYWOOD STREET CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC | $5,000 |
| IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $5,000 |
| ARTS FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - WYLDLIFE | $5,000 |
| TIME AND SPACE LIMITED THEATRE COMPANY INC | $5,000 |
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, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- TCTHE CONTINGENT3× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +182%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +59%
- CBCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco General Hospital Fdtnone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BFBEDS FOR KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +70%
- CTConservation Trust of NC Incone grant, 2017 · $7k
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
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and 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.
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 28 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 178 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 THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
- Who funds The Greenway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH HEROES ↗
- Who funds Our Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PARARESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL 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: 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
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 Mary Norris Preyer Fund 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.
- 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
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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