· Private foundation
The Plume Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| POLK COUNTY FILM INITIATIVE | $500 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS | $500 |
| P3 ANIMAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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 (FY22–23, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 10% of The Plume Family Foundation’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, 57% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 48% — 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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +43%- TFTRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +5%
- LLLANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +94%
- TITRYON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $500
- LFLENNIE'S FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
At SPCA of the Triad, we save homeless animals and support the people who love them. As a private, limted-admission shelter, we provide rescue and adoption, and free and low-cost programs and services so people and their pets thrive…
he Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance (PAW Alliance) is an all-volunteer animal welfare / social justice nonprofit in Forsyth County, NC. We envision a world where no person or animal will be thrown away, and our mission is to make our…
Rescue dogs and cats from local shelters and neglectful situations and provide medical care, spay/neuter, food and shelter while looking for forever homes.
4 Paws 4 Rescue is an all foster home rescue. We are dedicated to saving animals that are in need, whether they be from high kill shelters, strays, abandoned animals, or owner surrenders. We strive to find suitable permanent homes for our…
We are a recognized 501c3 all species animal rescue and sanctuary offering sanctuary and potential adoption to species ranging from cats dogs and chickens to donkeys and cows. The sanctuary animals all live in Pittsboro NC. Dogs and cats…
To prevent cruelty to animals
Hope animal rescue is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of stray and abandoned pets in north carolina. we promote compassionate and humane treatment of all animals, regardless of breed or species. we rescue those…
To rescue, rehabilitate and re-home abandoned and abused dogs and cats. All animals are kept in foster homes and we hold weekly adoption events.
To foster an awareness and appreciation of the natural world and to conserve, protect and maintain the area surrounding pearson's falls on colt creek in polk & henderson counties, north carolina
The mission is to provide affordable spay/neuter in North Carolina to address pet overpopulation.
We are a 501c3 all breed all foster-based all-volunteer dog rescue. We rescue unwanted abandoned and or abused dogs have them fully vetted and then adopt them to a loving forever home. Educate on the importance of spay neuter and heartworm…
The organization is dedicated to saving pets from certain death in shelters, prevent animal neglect and cruelty, and reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tryon Fine Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Service Dogs for Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds PAWS PRAYERS & PROMISES ↗
- Who funds Carolina Foothills Foundation ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY FILM INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds P3 ANIMAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRYON LITTLE THEATER 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: Polk County Community Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Plume Family 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.