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· Private foundation
THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$13M
Granted FY2023
361
Grants
2
Communities
$3.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
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2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 361 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k77 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k267 grants · $8.3M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $897k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
$30,092
Median grant
2
States reached
$316M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNC CHAPEL HILL - SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$3,113,569
- GENERAL$271,362
- UNC CHAPEL HILL - MOREHEAD HOUSE MAINTENANCE$140,235
- ADITI SENGUPTA$62,874
- ROTEM OLSHA$57,892
- EUGENIA CHOW$55,785
- GOWRI ABHINANDA$55,202
- SNEHASRI POTHANKER$54,854
- CHARLES KONKOLICS$54,767
- FLAVIA NUNEZ LUDEIRO$54,254
- JONATHAN OSBORNE$53,727
- TUCKER STILLMAN$52,854
- AAYAS JOSHI$51,208
- PRATYUSH SESHADRI$51,129
- JACOBY SMITH$50,862
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 299 repeat orgs$10.0M to everyone else
299 repeat relationships — 290 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
299
423
Total granted
$25M
$9.1M
Still filing today
0%
2%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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
- UCUNC CHAPEL HILL - SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM3× · 2021–2023 · $7.6M
- UCUNC CHAPEL HILL - MOREHEAD HOUSE MAINTENANCE3× · 2021–2023 · $375k
- REROLI ENONUYA3× · 2021–2023 · $111k
Funded once
- GGGENERAL GENERALone grant, 2022 · $246k
- CCCAROLINE CIARAMITAROone grant, 2022 · $53k
- AFAMY FENGone grant, 2022 · $49k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Wnc Health Network Inc
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Health
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Housing for New Hope
Ending homelessness in durham, north carolina
Housing & Shelter
3
Harvest Hope Food Bank
Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.
Food & Nutrition
4
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina
To provide food and shelter for the homeless
Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Habitat for Humanity of Burke Countyinc
To work with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat.
Housing & Shelter
7
Farmer Foodshare Inc
Farmer foodshare reshapes the disconnected food system by removing barriers to growing and accessing local food. we create markets for local farmers and deliver fresh, healthy food to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity…
Food & Nutrition
8
The Community Table Inc
To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry, and community garden programs.
Food & Nutrition
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Habitat for Humanity Macon Jackson Nc
To construct and provide housing to macon and jackson county residents who exhibit a true need for decent housing and the ability to repay a zero interest loan and willingness to partner with habitat
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10
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
Housing & Shelter
11
Appalachia Habitat for Humanity Inc
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
Housing & Shelter
12
Augusta Food Bank
The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mid-South Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$35,056,616Food & Nutrition$8,000Crime & Legal$5,000Health$4,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Education$1,000Human Services$1,000Religion$500
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.
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA6.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THREE SISTERS KITCHEN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 824882255 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THREE SISTERS KITCHEN, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Morehead-Cain Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Morehead-Cain Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines