· Private foundation
The Wallace Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST NC INC | $12,500 |
| WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER | $9,750 |
| NCCF LINVILLE RIDGE SCHOLARSHIP | $8,100 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| PIEDMONT PLAYERS THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| LEE ST THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,312 |
| PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NAZARETH CHILD AND FAMILY CONNECTIO | $1,500 |
| BRICK ED ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC | $1,000 |
| SALISBURY ROWAN HEART BALL | $550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SASALISBURY ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +91%
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $296k · revenue +455%
IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- NMNC MUSEUM OF DOLLS AND TOYSone grant, 2022 · $23k
- LRLINVILLE RIDGE EMPLOYEE ASST FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- NLNC LEAGUE OF CONSEVATION VOTERone grant, 2019 · $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 north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Belle W Baruch 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 41 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) — 7% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 94 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 SALISBURY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT PLAYERS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LEE STREET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · The Bernheim Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Johnson Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Rowan Arts Council Inc · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · North Carolina Community 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 Wallace Family Foundation Inc 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.