· Private foundation
The Way Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k19 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| WILMINGTON CARENET COUNSELING CENTER | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| FAMILYWORKS MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| COASTAL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SEAMAN'S SERVICE INC | $5,000 |
| PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CASTLE HAYNE CHURCH OF GOD | $5,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $80k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of The Way Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2018–2020 · $95k · revenue +163%
- FFFIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES3× · 2018–2020 · $42k · revenue +209%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- WCWILMINGTON CARENET COUNSELINGone grant, 2018 · $30k
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCaregraduatedone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $13k
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON CARENET COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Christian High School Inc ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR KIDS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH MISSIONS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Vigilant Hope 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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Seby B Jones Family Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Way Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Way Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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