· Private foundation
The Rudisill 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREWS-COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN | $167,000 |
| NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDA | $50,000 |
| HARRELSON CENTER | $33,333 |
| UNCW SEAHAWK CLUB | $25,000 |
| THE CAROUSEL CENTER | $12,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF SE NORTH CAROLINA | $10,000 |
| LITTLE CHAPEL ON BOARDWALK | $10,000 |
| OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS CAPE FEAR | $6,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER WILMINGTON | $5,000 |
| NC MAINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JDRF | $5,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AIRLIE GARDENS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- JAJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +140%
- MUMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +4%
- TCThe Carousel Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- CFCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +95%
- EVEden Village of Wilmingtonone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -21%
- DODREAMS OF WILMINGTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +81%
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.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
To provide financial resources to better enable Beaufort Memorial Hospital to serve the current and future health needs of the people of Beaufort County and the surrounding areas, as well as to foster health and wellness throughout the…
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
We foster meaningful connections and link resources to purposeful action, creating a brighter future for all who call Forsyth County home.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opera House Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 36% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 85 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 Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Carousel Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SCHREIBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSIBLE COASTAL CAROLINA EVENTS ↗
- Who funds FC CHARLESTON ↗
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 · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Eshelman Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Rudisill 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.