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The Unknown Angel of Fayetteville Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Unknown Angel of Fayetteville Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$24kEducation$13kArts & Culture$13kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$3kReligion$3kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT$11,500
SHEPARDS HILL ACADEMY$5,000
FTCC FOUNDATION$1,200
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA: $75 → 8%FALCON CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 16%BLADEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100 → 19%CAMP SUNSHINE: $100 → 20%SHEPARDS HILL ACADEMY: $5k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $1k → 16%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $2k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $500 → 16%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $200 → 16%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CHRISTIAN OUTREACH MINISTIRES: $7k → 16%CAPE FEAR LITTLE THEATER: $5k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR & RECONSTR: $3k → 16%CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 16%CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR & RECONSTR: $1k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $12k → 16%CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $12k → 16%AIRBORNE & SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEU: $3k → 16%AIRBORNE & SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEU: $1k → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 16%FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $500 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 16%FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $250 → 16%NORTHWOOD TEMPLE: $2k → 16%NORTHWOOD TEMPLE: $1k → 16%FTCC FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%FTCC FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%FTCC FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%FTCC FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 10 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$52k
$13k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • FT
    FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +201%
  • NH
    NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue ×45
  • EU
    EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • CF
    CAPE FEAR LITTLE THEATER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FC
    FALCON CHILDRENS HOME OF THE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $23,500 · OtherCUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPE FEAR LITTLE THEATER: $5,000 · OtherCAPE FEAR LITTLE THEATERIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCounty of Cumberland: $1,700 · OtherFALCON CHILDRENS HOME OF THE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH INC: $1,654 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $1,500 · Other+3 more: $275 · OtherFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,200 · EducationFAYETTEVILLE TECHNIC…EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $3,500 · EducationEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY …NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureNC HISTORY C…AIRBORNE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureAIRBORNE AND…FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $750 · Arts & CultureFAYETTEVILLE…SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,000 · Environment
Other$42,629Education$12,700Arts & Culture$7,750Youth Development$5,000Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIRBORNE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% 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 FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AIRBORNE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗

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.

Cumberland Community …Sharlene R Williams F…Youth Growth Stock Tr…W S Wellons FoundationThomas R & Elizabeth …Florence Rogers Chari…The Cannon Foundation…Amazonsmile Foundation
Cumberland Community Foundation IncNC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Youth Growth Stock Trust · W S Wellons Foundation · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Unknown Angel of Fayetteville Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Unknown Angel of Fayetteville Inc. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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