· Private foundation
The Promise Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Deeds of Wilmington LLC | $25,000 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC | $1,000 |
| Nourish NC | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +464% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CCChrist Community Church4× · 2017–2021 · $22k
- AYADVANCE YOUTH OUTREACH3× · 2017–2020 · $12k
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +524%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $28k
- BBBRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
- GLGIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +751%
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.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
The Nest Academy is a trauma-informed, private K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina with a mission to change the lives of refugee and underprivileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school…
Building Hope Community Life Center, Inc. is a comprehensive program designed to help young students and families become successful by developing the spiritual and moral infrastructure as well as the necessary educational skills to…
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential and to be productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Covenant community school, inc. is a charitable community service organization whose mission is to provide a christ centered preschool experience ministering to children and their families.
Our mission is to provide the best quality education and care for children and to become a national model for early childhood education. in addition to providing a healthy learning environment for children, the center also provides an…
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Advance Youth Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 39 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 ADVANCE YOUTH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds A Safe Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Wilmington School of the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Child Development Center 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: New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family 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 Promise Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.
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