· Private foundation
Thomas R and Kathy S McPherson Family Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of Thomas R and Kathy S McPherson Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWNSON MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,750 |
| JUDSON THEATRE INC | $25,000 |
| FIRST HEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC | $6,500 |
| THE TIN WHISTLES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JTJUDSON THEATRE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +79%
- NSNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +172%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CCCHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +107%
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +51%
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.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To advance wilson college of textiles through engagement, partnership and philanthropy. as a charitable organization, the foundation supports the college and dean of the college and such support shall include but is not limited to…
To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds Given Tufts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOORE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Gordy-Steidinger Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Thomas R and Kathy S McPherson Family 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.