· Private foundation
The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CAROUSEL CENTER | $20,000 |
| NEW HANOVER COUNTY SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $15,000 |
| DUPLIN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE | $10,000 |
| DREAMS OF WILMINGTON | $10,000 |
| PENDER ALLIANCE FOR TOTAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| BRUNSWICK FAMILY ASSISTANCE | $10,000 |
| KIDS MAKING IT | $10,000 |
| PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
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, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 Carousel Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +162%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +317%
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- DHDAVIS HEALTH CARE CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SENCone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
The mission of the Christian Community Caring Center, aka 4Cs Food Pantry, is to serve Christ by providing healthy, nutritious food to our neighbors in need in Eastern Pender County, NC.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
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…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilmington Carenet Counseling Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Families First 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.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 Carousel Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Pender Alliance for Total Health ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON CARENET COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DUPLIN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF PENDER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Coastal Horizons Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center 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: Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc 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 Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable 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.
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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