· Private foundation
The Stowe Foundation Inc
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 $10k28 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $157,000 |
| FIRST AR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $51,500 |
| PUT TOOLS IN SCHOOLS INC | $20,000 |
| HOLY ANGLES INC | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GASTO | $3,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON COUNTY IN | $3,000 |
| BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| DAHLIA GROVE | $2,500 |
| BACK CREEK CHURCH | $2,500 |
| STAND FOR ANIMALS | $1,760 |
| GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,750 |
| BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $1,500 |
| BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME | $1,500 |
| CHARLOTTE FILM 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 (FY21–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- BWBACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +40%
- CRCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +267%
- BABELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- GCGASTON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $1.3M
- WFWARLICK FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2018 · $150k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GASTON COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
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…
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Seven Oaks Farm Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 81 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 GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
- Who funds McColl Center for Art Innovation ↗
- Who funds CAROMONT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Leroy Springs & Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte ↗
- Who funds SEVEN OAKS FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spay Neuter Charlotte ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Gaston Community Foundation · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Albemarle Foundation · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Howe Foundation Inc · Associated Foundation Incorporated · The Presbyterian Hospital · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc
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 Stowe 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.
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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