· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - CLEVELAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CHARLOTTESVILLE | $14,500 |
| SPREAD THE HEALTH INC | $12,000 |
| UMCOR | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BLOWING ROCK METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC (FKA FOOTHILLS JR GOLF ASSOCIATION) | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HOHOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +73%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LYNC 8 PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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