· Private foundation
Hopestar Foundation
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 $10k20 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $51,500 |
| HEALTHCONNECT ONE (NURTURE NC) | $23,500 |
| THE CENTER FOR NATIVE HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| NC PHILANTHROPY LIAISON (NC OSP) | $10,000 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY (ECU) | $5,000 |
| YANCY COUNTY DA TRAUMA INFORMED SPACE | $4,800 |
| STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| THE HACKETT CENTER POLICY ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA SYMPOSIUM | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NC ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS | $600 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $518 |
| NC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION | $511 |
| YWCA CENTRAL CAROLINAS | $510 |
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 (FY24–24, $284) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 22 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- NONC Office of State Budget & Management2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC2× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +294%
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue -83%
Funded once
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $59k · revenue +195%
FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATIONone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -6%- BYBRINGING YOU EXCELLENCE (B.Y.E.) LLC/COMMUNITY Resilience Projectone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To foster and accelerate the collective impact of hospitals, health systems and community partners to improve the health of north carolinians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Nantucket Film Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 109 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Center For Native Health Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Teen Health Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Womens Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Charlotte 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: The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation 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 Hopestar 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.