· Private foundation
The Troon Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $672k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT OF JAMES M AND KATHLEEN H PIERMARINI | $700,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY | $190,000 |
| WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $113,312 |
| CHRISTMAS CHEER | $100,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| PROSAMI | $93,700 |
| BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS | $90,000 |
| CITY GATE DREAM CENTER | $90,000 |
| ON OUR OWN | $74,208 |
| YMCA | $55,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S VILLA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF ALAMANCE | $50,000 |
| THE DOORWAYS | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC4× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +16%
- ADALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +3%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MHMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $86k · revenue 0%
- LGLYNCHBURG GROWSone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $35k
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 WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
Charitable nonprofit providing assistance to individuals in need in Alamance County
Established in 1983, Urban Ministries of Durham provides case management to end people's homelessness, offer emergency shelter, free meals, groceries, clothing, referral to needed resources, workforce and life skills training, and…
To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Loudoun Serenity House's mission is to provide free, peer-based mentoring, education, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by substance abuse disorder, along with structured transitional housing for men and women rebuilding…
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of North Carolina…
To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Prosami. 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 20 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 68 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 UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROSAMI ↗
- Who funds ALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds International Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS OF ALAMANCE ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
- Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
- Who funds The Yellow Door Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds ALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds DIAKONOS INC ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
- Who funds NEXT MOVE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Studio 1 ↗
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: Truist Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · George J & Effie L Seay · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Charles Fund Inc · Richmond Memorial Health 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 Troon 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.