· Private foundation
The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE STELIO AND BETTY TRACY CORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY | $62,432 |
| TOWN OF BLUEFIELD VA | $35,006 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $12,578 |
| MT VIEW HIGH SCHOOL | $12,300 |
| SOUTHWEST VA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,926 |
| TOWN OF KIMBALL WV | $10,000 |
| OPERATION HOME | $9,000 |
| BLUEFIELD WV POLICE DEPT | $8,500 |
| GRAHAM HIGH SCHOOL | $5,750 |
| SANDERS HOUSE | $5,300 |
| CITADEL BRIGADIER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| K9 WORKING DOGS | $3,500 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| WADE CENTER | $3,000 |
| VFW POST 9696 | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 24% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 26 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- BUBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $216k · revenue +1%
- CSCHRIST SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +95%
- OHOPERATION HOME INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- AAURONZOone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CUCHOWAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bland County Historical Society. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 221 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL BRIGADIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
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: Jam Family Foundation Inc · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · The 1912 Charitable Foundation · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · The Pace Family Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ethel N Bowen Foundation · Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc · Preservati Family Char Tr Fdn · Skewes 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 Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable 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.
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% 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.