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Thomas & Kate Fonville Account
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE REINS | $13,000 |
| CROSSROADS FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $11,000 |
| YOUR CENTER PEACE INC | $10,000 |
| RALEIGH DREAM CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE CARL EDWARDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE | $10,000 |
| WORLD WIDE VILLAGE | $9,000 |
| TRANSITIONS LIFE CARE | $5,000 |
| CIRCLE 555 | $5,000 |
| RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| WITH PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $2,500 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% 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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HOPE REINS7× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +89%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)8× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +52%
- NMNEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2021 · $13k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
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…
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Crossroads and crisis christian counseling
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Students in the Word Inc. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 55 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 Your CenterPeace Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds NOTE IN THE POCKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WITH PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD WIDE VILLAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · John & Frances Morisey Trust Account · Duke Energy Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Building for Hope Inc · Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation Inc · The Baker Family Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope 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 Thomas & Kate Fonville Account 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.
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