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The Robert P Holding 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.3M
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 2025.

Education$8.2MPhilanthropy$5.6MHuman Services$2.9MHealth$2.1MYouth Development$2.0MEnvironment$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MReligion$848kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $990k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,299,542
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY$501,800
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$501,800
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE$450,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTAL PLAIN$375,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY$350,000
CARTERET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$250,000
YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY$200,000
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY$150,000
STEP-UP MINISTRY$125,000
NEW RIVER YMCA$100,000
ECU HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
HISTORIC SMITHFIELD FOUNDATION INC$100,000
GIRL SCOUNTS - NC COASTAL PINES$75,000
NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 12%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $10k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 24%YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY: $200k → 12%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $10k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $10k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 24%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $25k → 12%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $5k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $5k → 20%CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $50k → 20%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 8%STEP-UP MINISTRY: $125k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $450k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $334k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $299k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $201k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $188k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $150k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $125k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $85k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $50k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $15k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $10k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $10k → 8%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 91 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

91 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
35

Total granted

$18M
$642k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+41%

Still filing today

44%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +6%
  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +51%
  • TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $862k · revenue +528%

Funded once

  • MARBLES KIDS MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $102k · revenue +79%
  • CASA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -3%
  • PC
    PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -19%
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
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
2
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
3
Catawba College

Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
6
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
7
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
8
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
9
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
10
North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.

Education
11
The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education
12
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; the most unlike its peers is Simply Girls Incorporated. 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

66 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. 66 of the 138 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
44/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $782,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLA…GIRL SCOUNTS - NC COASTAL PINES: $752,782 · OtherGIRL SCOUNTS - NC COASTAL PINESJOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $733,024 · OtherJOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION I…WAKEMED FOUNDATION: $501,800 · OtherWAKEMED FOUNDATIONLOUISBURG COLLEGE: $451,065 · Other+83 more: $5,706,560 · Other+83 moreNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,445,818 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY F…Carteret County General Hospital Foundation: $250,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $201,000 · PhilanthropyCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $2,171,126 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $610,775 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $501,078 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOLST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $445,000 · EducationST DAVID'S SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $352,887 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIV…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $300,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLJOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $242,388 · EducationBARTON COLLEGE: $200,500 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $181,775 · Education+7 more: $420,103 · Education+7 moreThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $1,882,980 · Human ServicesThe Young M…YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesYMCA BLUE R…STEPUP MINISTRY: $125,000 · Human ServicesBERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $100,000 · Human Services+8 more: $330,000 · Human Services+8 moreTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $862,287 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $227,862 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentCONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureTRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC: $142,862 · Arts & CultureELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureKIDZNOTES INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $79,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $290,972 · AnimalsTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $225,000 · Animals
Other$8,927,731Philanthropy$5,896,818Education$5,425,632Human Services$2,637,980Environment$1,095,149Arts & Culture$874,362Animals$515,972

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,445,818 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $2,171,126 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $1,882,980 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $862,287 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $782,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetJOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $733,024 over 9y, 37% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $610,775 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $501,078 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOUISBURG COLLEGE: $451,065 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $445,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $352,887 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $300,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $290,972 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMY KIDS CLUB: $288,500 over 7y, 47% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $275,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCarteret County General Hospital Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetJOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $242,388 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $227,862 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $225,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetBARTON COLLEGE: $200,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $181,775 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHOWAN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC: $142,862 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $125,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $101,887 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $100,103 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $100,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCASA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $65,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetPITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBertie County Hive House: $40,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC: $32,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $25,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetEYES ON MAINSTREET INC: $25,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MY KIDS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Carteret County General Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC78.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Barnhill Family Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Ibm International 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 Robert P Holding Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hope Villages of America Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc 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 138 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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