· Private foundation
The McSwain Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBBINS VILLAGE THEATER | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE THEATER | $10,000 |
| LEE COUNTY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| ROBBINS AREA LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| TRIADS CULTURAL ARTS | $5,000 |
| CUOC | $5,000 |
| JOHN T HOGGARD HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FLOW UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL CLINIC FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| HAVEN OF LEE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| LEE CO SR HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA DEPT | $3,000 |
| PAWS OF THE PINES RESCUE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
SAMARITAN MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +77%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +48%- BRBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- FCFORSYTH CO PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- RVROBBIN VILLAGE THEATER AND COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF SANFORD INC - DEPOT RENOVATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Helping homeless men by providing a safe shelter and meeting their basic needs as well as address barriers related to homelessness and self-sufficiency and helping homeless men to obtain and maintain more appropriate housing.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
To be the leader in advocating for all children to reach their greatest potential.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hand Clinic Inc. 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.
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Center for the Homesless Inc ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES OF SANFORD INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Triad Cultural Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds STEVENS CENTER ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable 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 McSwain Trust 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.
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