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· Public charity
TOBACCO ROAD MARATHON
To foster, coordinate, and develop amateur athletic activity in the sport of running and distribute excess in support of other charities.
$142k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
4
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Human Services$239kHealth$214kPhilanthropy$56kEnvironment$11kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$102k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
christian
2020
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2021
—
2022
christian
2023
christian
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN RED CROSS$35,000
- AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$30,000
- JDRF$15,000
- YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE$12,000
- REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
- HOPE FOR WARRIORS$10,000
- WAKE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION$8,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$562k · 6 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
6
Total granted
$562k
$31k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+9%
+56%
Still filing today
67%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS7× · 2018–2024 · $191k · revenue +9%
- JIJDRF INTERNATIONAL6× · 2018–2024 · $179k · revenue +12%
- YOYMCA OF THE TRIANGLE5× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WCWAKE COUNTY PARKS AND RECSone grant, 2018 · $12k
RAILS TO TRAILSone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +15%- VFV FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
American Cancer Society Inc
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group
Susan g. komen's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
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3
Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia
To advance the science that will predict, prevent, reverse, and cure diseases of the immune system.
Health
4
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
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5
Lung Cancer Research Foundation
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Health
6
Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated(see Sch O) to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical expertise…
Science & Tech
7
Roane County Medical Center
Roane County Medical Center is a 54-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Harriman, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Health
8
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc
To advance research, support patients, and create hope for people who have pancreatic cancer.
Health
9
National Foundation for Cancer Research
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
Health
10
Researchamerica
Advocates for science, discovery and innovation to achieve better health for all.
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11
American Association for Cancer Research
Accelerates the conquest of cancer by funding scientific research, education and communication.
Health
12
The Nebraska Medical Center
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Alpine Club and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$238,649Health$213,532Other$101,745Philanthropy$56,222Environment$11,000Food & Nutrition$2,000
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 AMERICAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds JDRF INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds UNC REX HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS ↗
- Who funds V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WE CAN SO YOU CAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation TOBACCO ROAD MARATHON 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WE CAN SO YOU CAN FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
high risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 812276424 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WE CAN SO YOU CAN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Tobacco Road Marathon?
Find your warmest path to Tobacco Road Marathon through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines