· Private foundation
The Story Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CAROLINA FOOTHILLS | $2,500 |
| POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| STEPS TO HOPE | $2,000 |
| THE MEETING PLACE | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDRENS HOSPITALS | $1,500 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $1,500 |
| HENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COUNT | $1,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AMAZING FACTS INC | $1,000 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against -56% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +145%- STSTEPS TO HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +328%
SMILE TRAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SDSEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CFCarolina Foothills Foundationone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -56%
- YLYOUNF LIFE ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COUNTone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to meet people wherever they are with Christ's message…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our mission is to meet, through the power of jesus christ, the spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational needs of the whole person so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society. the…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to share the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ with the…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smile Train Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds IT IS WRITTEN INC ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF PROPHECY ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Carolina Foothills Foundation ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Story 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.
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% 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.
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