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The Talbert Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$406k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$901kEducation$199kArts & Culture$86kCivil Rights$26kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$15kAnimals$11kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $350 → 12%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $350 → 12%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $300 → 12%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $250 → 12%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $150 → 12%GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $150 → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFE CARE: $400 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 45 repeat orgs$955k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
35

Total granted

$410k
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+55%

Still filing today

29%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EN
    EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • TL
    The Landfall Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +280%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TF
    TALBERT FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • GC
    GASTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $52k
  • FD
    FEAST DOWN EAST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +110%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
2
Cape Fear Museum Associates Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmin

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Equality Nc

Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.

Civil Rights
5
Ywca of the Lower Cape Fear Inc

Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
6
North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Foundation Inc

In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.

Crime & Legal
7
North Carolina Beach Inlet and Waterway Association Inc

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…

Environment
8
Brunswick County Habitat for Humanity Incorporated

To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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9
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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10
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
Cape Fear Community Land Trust Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; 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.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TALBERT FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 · OtherTALBERT FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTALBERT FAMILY DONAR ADVISOR FUND: $375,000 · OtherTALBERT FAMILY DONAR ADVISOR FUNDUNC GREENSBORO: $77,030 · OtherUNC GREENSBOROIndividual grant recipient: $70,136 · OtherCHERRYVILL HIGH SCHOOL ED FND: $68,800 · OtherGASTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $52,000 · Other+66 more: $172,090 · Other+66 moreThe Landfall Foundation Inc: $20,190 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc: $2,100 · PhilanthropyThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $9,300 · Housing & ShelterCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterWELCOME HOME ANGEL INC: $7,000 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentFEAST DOWN EAST INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $2,000 · Community ImprovementGOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $1,550 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: $400 · Human Services
Other$1,315,056Philanthropy$24,790Housing & Shelter$11,800Environment$7,100Food & Nutrition$5,000Community Improvement$2,000Human Services$1,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Landfall Foundation Inc: $20,190 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $9,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME HOME ANGEL INC: $7,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFEAST DOWN EAST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON: $1,550 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS MAKING IT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWrightsville Beach Museum Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLAAD INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMYS BIKE DRIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILMINGTON ART ASSOCIATION: $500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPFLAG: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carousel Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

North Carolina Commun…New Hanover Community…The Cynthia & George …Duke Energy FoundationThe Rudisill Family F…The True North Founda…The Cannon Foundation…Dan Cameron Family Fo…The Landfall Foundati…Corning Incorporated …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Fox Charitable Founda…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC30.6× affinity13 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Talbert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Talbert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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