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The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$47kFood & Nutrition$41kHousing & Shelter$40kHuman Services$28kCivil Rights$26kAnimals$20kInternational$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,551
Median grant
9
States reached
$307k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Penland School of Craft$3,627
Legal Aid of North Carolina$2,725
FoodFinder$2,700
Habitat for Humanity$2,591
Lower Cape Fear Hospice$2,591
WARM NC$2,588
Meals on Wheels America$2,588
Democracy Forward Foundation$2,587
Campaign for Southern Equality$2,583
The Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC$2,582
The Barnabas Network$2,577
Carousel Center Child Advocacy$2,575
Eden Village of Wilmington$2,575
Domestic Violence Shelter & Service$2,551
Good Shepherd Center$2,551
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%Domestic Violence Shelter & Service: $3k → 12%The Barnabas Network: $3k → 16%The Barnabas Network: $3k → 16%Domestic Violence Shelter & Service: $3k → 12%The Barnabas Network: $3k → 16%Domestic Violence Shelter & Service: $3k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER & SERVICE: $3k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER & SERVICE: $3k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER & SERVICE: $3k → 12%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $3k → 12%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $3k → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE: $3k → 12%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $3k → 12%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $3k → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE: $3k → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$218k · 25 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$218k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

76%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +87%
  • LC
    Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
    7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +27%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNITED FOR PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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2
New Disabled South Rising Inc

New Disabled South Rising is the advocacy arm of New Disabled South focusing on poverty and care, criminalization and democracy.

Civil Rights
3
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
4
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
6
New Disabled South Inc

To improve the lives of disabled people and build strong disability justice and rights movements in the South through research & knowledge building, advocacy & policy change, non-partisan voter engagement, and coalition building.

Health
7
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
8
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
9
Equality Nc

Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.

Civil Rights
10
Freedom Action Network of Sc

Social welfare advocacy organization

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11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
12
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is George Floyd Global Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community CentersGovernment Accountability R…Food Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Elementary Literacy TutoringEducation Equity LeadershipChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Hospice Care ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Senior Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr12%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,131

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Hanover County Humane Society — $12,500 · OtherNew Hanover County Humane SocietyFull Belly Project LTD — $7,500 · OtherNEW HANOVER COUNTY COOPERATIVE — $7,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $6,125 · OtherCarousel Center Child Advocacy — $5,075 · OtherDomestic Violence Shelter Service — $5,051 · OtherUNITED FOR PUERTO RICO — $5,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,125 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 · OtherBE THE BRIDGE — $5,000 · OtherNEW HANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · OtherRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $5,063 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $5,025 · Other+31 more — $53,061 · Other+31 moreLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $17,591 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fea…Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc — $15,051 · Human ServicesDomestic Viole…THE BARNABAS NETWORK — $7,577 · Human ServicesTHE BARNABAS N…Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $17,602 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd …Eden Village of Wilmington — $10,150 · Housing & ShelterEden Village o…Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc — $10,088 · Housing & ShelterWilmington Are…MEALS ON WHEELS COUNCIL INC — $17,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…NourishNC Inc — $7,500 · Food & NutritionNourishNC In…MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $2,588 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $2,582 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF…Feeding America — $2,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding Amer…TREVOR PROJECT INC — $7,500 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $2,625 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality — $2,583 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS — $2,500 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRA — $2,500 · Civil RightsFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR — $7,500 · Arts & CulturePenland School Of Craft — $3,627 · Arts & CultureGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe Carousel Center Inc — $7,575 · HealthSurfers Healing Foundation Inc — $7,500 · Health+1 more — $250 · Health
Other$144,525Human Services$40,219Housing & Shelter$37,840Food & Nutrition$32,670Civil Rights$17,708Arts & Culture$16,127Health$15,325

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $17,602 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $17,591 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COUNCIL INC — $17,500 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetDomestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc — $15,051 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEden Village of Wilmington — $10,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc — $10,088 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNABAS NETWORK — $7,577 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Carousel Center Inc — $7,575 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFull Belly Project LTD — $7,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNourishNC Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $5,063 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $5,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE THE BRIDGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPenland School Of Craft — $3,627 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBahamas National Trust Fund Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $2,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $2,587 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $2,582 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,582 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS — $2,575 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT — $2,510 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPowherful Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $359 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

North Carolina Commun…New Hanover Community…The Landfall Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationThe True North Founda…Cape Fear Memorial Fo…The Cynthia & George …Truist Foundation IncUnited Way of the Cap…The Lagomarsino Found…The Myrtle and Rt Sin…The Rudisill Family F…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The Lagomarsino Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rudisill 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 Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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