· Private foundation
The Talbert Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALBERT FAMILY DONAR ADVISOR FUND | $375,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,636 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| CANINES IN SERVICE | $2,500 |
| BRIGADE BOYSGIRS CLUB | $1,500 |
| WELCOME HOME ANGEL | $1,000 |
| CHERRYVILL HIGH SCHOOL ED FND | $500 |
| UNC GREENSBORO | $400 |
| CHERRYVILLE LITTLE THEATER | $300 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH | $200 |
| WRIGHTSVILLE VOL FIRE DE | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $2k) 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.
45 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k 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
- ENEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +53%
- TLThe Landfall Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +280%
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TFTALBERT FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $500k
- GCGASTON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $52k
- FDFEAST DOWN EAST INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +110%
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 solicit and receive contributions for the county owned historical museum. To purchase and receive museum pieces and artifacts of local historical value. To support and assist in expanding the work of the museum.
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.
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
The organization is working on behalf of North Carolina's coast, and those who love it, by seeking to encourage government action and funding, educate and advocate for effective Federal and State policy, and facilitate environmentally…
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
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…
Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Jimmys Bike Drive 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 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 EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Landfall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME ANGEL INC ↗
- Who funds FEAST DOWN EAST INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fox Charitable 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 Talbert 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.