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The Peninsula Community Foundation

Organization operates exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific and religious purposes donating funds to other charitable organizations in the community.

$547k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$676kHealth$186kFood & Nutrition$162kEducation$131kCommunity Improvement$111kHousing & Shelter$78kPhilanthropy$75kEnvironment$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $505,220 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $546,720 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $478k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$282k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITHVILLE COMMUNNITY COALITION$41,720
FOOD CONNECTIONS INC$40,000
BEDS FOR KIDS$32,500
ADA JENKINS CENTER$30,000
CATERPILLAR MINISTRIES$30,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CARE$25,000
BAGS OF HOPE$25,000
FLYIN LION MINISTRIES$22,000
COOK COMMUNITY CLINIC$20,000
WINE TO WATER$20,000
ANGELS AND SPARROWS$20,000
EBLEN CHARITIES$15,000
CORNELIUS DEVELOPMENT CORP$15,000
NC ASSOC FREE CHAR CLINIC$15,000
CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FNDTN$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $435k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 8%BRIDGE OF HEARTS: $10k → 9%BRIGHT BLESSINGS LAKE NORMAN: $10k → 9%YMCA: $30k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $8k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $8k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $33k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $15k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $13k → 10%ALONGSIDE FAMILIES: $8k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $7k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS: $7k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $32k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $30k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $30k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $28k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%HOSPICE AND PALLANTIVE CARE: $13k → 10%YMCA READERS PROGRAM: $7k → 10%YMCA LAKE NORMAN: $7k → 10%ALONGSIDE FAMILIES: $15k → 10%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE LAKE NORMAN: $6k → 10%DISCOVERY PLACE KIDS: $10k → 10%DISCOVERY PLACE KIDS: $10k → 10%DISCOVERY PLACE KIDS: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 26 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+26%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • AJ
    Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    Cook Community Clinic Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +29%
  • SC
    SMITHVILLE COMMUNITY COALITION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue ×22 · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • LN
    LAKE NORMAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • DV
    DAVIDSON VILLAGE NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • LS
    LITTLE SMILES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

1
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
Family Support Network of Central Carolina

Family support network of central carolina believes every child deserves a thriving family. our mission is to provide comprehensive support, education, and resources for families facing two distinct challenges: those with infants admitted…

Human Services
3
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

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…

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4
Carolina Collaborative Prep

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.

Education
5
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
Share Charlotte

SHARE Charlotte is building a better Charlotte by empowering nonprofits and helping people invest in their communities in ways that matter most to them.

Community Improvement
8
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

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…

Human Services
10
North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health
11
Nourish One Child

To provide nutritious food to the most food insecure children when not in school in scottsboro city schools and surrounding areas.

Food & Nutrition
12
Carolina Children's Charity Inc

To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Carolina Comfort Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%10%<5yr20%23%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr12%15%20–35yr8%13%35–55yr8%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%6%<5yr20%21%5–10yr21%30%10–20yr12%21%20–35yr8%12%35–55yr8%11%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
22%
1,394/6,449

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 49 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $199,951 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Families and Careers Devel…Caterpillar Ministries — $94,000 · Human ServicesCaterpillar MinistriesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $74,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF G…BEDS FOR KIDS INC — $73,800 · Human ServicesBEDS FOR KIDS INCSafe Alliance Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesALONGSIDE FAMILIES — $22,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HEARTS — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION — $18,754 · Human ServicesBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL — $32,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MEC…SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CA…ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $22,000 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCOMMUNITY IN CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH — $20,520 · OtherCOMMUNITY IN CHRIST LUTHE…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA — $17,500 · OtherEblen Charities Inc — $15,000 · OtherCarolina Comfort Coalition — $15,000 · OtherSENIOR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS CENTER — $12,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $62,500 · OtherHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INCCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 · OtherCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUND…Wine to Water — $20,000 · OtherWine to WaterCONVOY OF HOPE — $15,000 · Other+10 more — $81,500 · Other+10 moreCook Community Clinic Inc — $120,000 · HealthCook Commun…NOVANT HEALTH INC — $15,000 · HealthNOVANT HEAL…NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC — $15,000 · HealthNORTH CAROL…A GIVING SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Health+1 more — $5,150 · HealthBAGS OF HOPE — $78,500 · Food & NutritionBAGS OF HO…FOOD CONNECTION INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD CONNE…ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $28,500 · Food & NutritionANGELS & S…NEIGHBORHOOD CARE CENTER INC — $75,750 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORH…THE CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CAIN …THRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHRIVE GL…Make an Impact Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMake an I…The High Country Charitable Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe High …NORTH MECKLENBURG CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $74,500 · EducationCORNELIUS EARLY SCHOLARS — $25,000 · EducationGLOBAL MINDS UNITED — $15,000 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $7,500 · EducationSMITHVILLE COMMUNITY COALITION INC — $103,920 · Community ImprovementLAKE NORMAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$528,505Other$358,020Health$163,650Food & Nutrition$147,000Philanthropy$130,750Education$122,000Community Improvement$118,920

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $199,951 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCook Community Clinic Inc — $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSMITHVILLE COMMUNITY COALITION INC — $103,920 over 4y, 34% of budgetCaterpillar Ministries — $94,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetBAGS OF HOPE — $78,500 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CARE CENTER INC — $75,750 over 4y, 15% of budgetNORTH MECKLENBURG CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $74,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $74,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEDS FOR KIDS INC — $73,800 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $62,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFOOD CONNECTION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL — $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $28,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCORNELIUS EARLY SCHOLARS — $25,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALONGSIDE FAMILIES — $22,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWine to Water — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE OF HEARTS — $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION — $18,754 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE NORMAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEblen Charities Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MINDS UNITED — $15,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarolina Comfort Coalition — $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMake an Impact Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe High Country Charitable Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA GIVING SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetEL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RESPECT ABILITY — $7,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc — $5,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Giving With Grace Fou…Duke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…The Presbyterian Hosp…The Covia FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…Merancas Foundation I…Speedway Children's C…Albemarle FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC37.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Giving With Grace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Covia Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem 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 Peninsula Community 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Peninsula Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Peninsula Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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