How much does The Raftelis Foundation give?

The Raftelis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $14,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Raftelis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (21%).

Who are The Raftelis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Charlotte Lab School Inc ($36k), Eckerd College ($25k), Mothering Across Continents Inc ($23k).

Does The Raftelis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Raftelis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Raftelis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.

Where is The Raftelis Foundation based?

The Raftelis Foundation is based in NC.

The Raftelis Foundation

The Raftelis Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Raftelis 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.

$14k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$132kEducation$112kArts & Culture$85kEnvironment$21kAnimals$13kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$191k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BROOKGREEN GARDENS	$5,000
ECKERD COLLEGE	$3,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE PRESBY CHURCH	$2,750
BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
E2D	$1,000
KIWANIS	$1,000
CDM FOUNDATION	$250
PENINSULA COMMUNITY FUND	$250
Individual grant recipient	$100
CORNELIUS LEMLEY FIRE RESCUE	$50

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$361k · 25 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$361k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+32%

Still filing today

52%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

CL
CHARLOTTE LAB SCHOOL INC
4× · 2017–2021 · $36k · revenue +256%
EC
Eckerd College
6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
MA
MOTHERING ACROSS CONTINENTS INC
4× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +52%

Funded once

RM
RUMPLE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $8k
HC
Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +20%
B
BPA
one grant, 2023 · $3k

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.

Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech

The Carolina Trust

Philanthropy

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation

Health

Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health

Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

Charlotte Community Foundation Inc

To foster philanthropy across charlotte county to enhance our community for generations.

Philanthropy

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Charlotte Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural and Service Center Inc

The harvey b. gantt center for african-american arts and culture (formerly the charlotte-mecklenburg afro-american cultural and service center) exists to present, preserve and promote african american art, culture and history for the…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is Cdm Foundation Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$238,749Education$108,903Arts & Culture$18,896Environment$15,050Animals$11,780Philanthropy$2,615Recreation & Sports$2,125

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.

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 CarolinasNC21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Raftelis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Raftelis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home