· Private foundation
Trade Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $250k+2 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECU Educational Foundation | $700,000 |
| Christ Covenant School | $250,000 |
| KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| SON SET MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| The Rogallo Foundation | $2,500 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +145%- PCPitt Community College Foundation Inc2× · 2019–2021 · $159k · revenue +29%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PCPITT COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $203k
- BCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +66%
- TRTHE REFUGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To foster and promote christian stewardship and for promoting and providing support to the ministries in north carolina affiliated with or consistent with the convention of original free will baptists and other charitable, education,…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
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.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
The corporation makes distributions to or for christian churches, ministries, and other charities
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…
The foundation of unc charlotte receives contributions to promote and develop the academic and educational purpose of unc charlotte by providing support for operations, educational programs, and scholarships for the university and its…
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
The organization's mission is to educate elementary students through jesus christ-centered programs based on biblical truth and values, training and equipping them for a lifetime of learning, ledership, dedication, care for others, and…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 94 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 EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SON SET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROGALLO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PITT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds J H ROSE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
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: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trade Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trade Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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