· Private foundation
The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION CO AMY BROWN NORTH’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRELSON CENTER | $25,907 |
| CFWNC | $25,773 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,625 |
| HILL SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON | $21,407 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE | $20,726 |
| HOMES OF HOPE INDIA US | $20,000 |
| CAMP SPRING CREEK | $20,000 |
| UNC TV | $10,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,444 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,417 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SE NORTH CAROLI | $10,400 |
| CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,363 |
| CAROUSEL CENTER | $10,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,300 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF WILMINGTON | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
65 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
WOFFORD COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $320k · revenue +52%- CSCAMP SPRING CREEK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +31%
- THThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +279%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +64%
- LLLCF LIFE CAREone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cw 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 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 117 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 WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP SPRING CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds The Hill School of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE INDIA - US ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds A Safe Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP KIRKWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds SHE ROCKS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear River Watch ↗
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 Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Novant Health 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 True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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