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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $505,220, the rows itemized in this filing. The $546,720 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
BAGS OF HOPE$25,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CARE$25,000
FLYIN LION MINISTRIES$22,000
WINE TO WATER$20,000
ANGELS AND SPARROWS$20,000
COOK COMMUNITY CLINIC$20,000
EBLEN CHARITIES$15,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$15,000
CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FNDTN$15,000
CORNELIUS EARLY SCHOLARS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +38%
  • 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
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
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
5
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
6
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
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
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
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
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
12
Families First in Cabarrus County

To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 49 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $15,000 · HealthNORTH CAROL…NOVANT HEALTH INC: $15,000 · HealthNOVANT HEAL…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $74,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH MECKLENBURG CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $74,500 over 5y, 2.4% 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 budgetALONGSIDE FAMILIES: $22,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE OF HEARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetWine to Water: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL MINDS UNITED: $15,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetEblen Charities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCarolina Comfort Coalition: $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE NORMAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 20% 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 budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RESPECT ABILITY: $7,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc: $5,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Peninsula Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peninsula Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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