· Private foundation
The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE PAUL AND MARGARET PORTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREVARD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - CLEVELAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CHARLOTTESVILLE | $14,500 |
| SPREAD THE HEALTH INC | $12,000 |
| CLEVELAND COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC (FKA FOOTHILLS JR GOLF ASSOCIATION) | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| BLOWING ROCK METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BCBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +28%
- LELife Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +5%
- BABoys and Girls Club Cleveland County6× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- UMUNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $10k
- HRHAITI RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $7k
- FKFEEDING KIDS OF CLEVELAND COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Creating a link between parents, providers, and the community to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality child care.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The mission of Lake Norman Christian School is to provide a college-preparatory education in a safe and nurturing environment grounded in the Christian faith.
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…
Operation of a public charter school.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Cleveland County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Mission Foundation. 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 26 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 64 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 BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LYNC 8 PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CURE JM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Kids Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds HAITI MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAINS CHRISTIAN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Albemarle Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dover Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Hospice Cleveland County Foundation · Weathers Family Foundation - Rbc Trust Accoun · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Brinkley Family Foundation · United Way of Cleveland County Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Celanese 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 organization The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable 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.
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.