· Private foundation
Trent 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
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 $10k22 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CITY CHURCH | $102,500 |
| IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH | $27,600 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE | $5,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE | $3,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $2,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HILL COUNTRY | $2,000 |
| TANDEM SPIRITUALITY | $1,000 |
| ALL SOULS CHARLOTTESVILLE | $1,000 |
| LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY | $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 (FY19–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- BSBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +119%
ROOF ABOVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +58%- KDKAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- FCFREEDOM COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue ×11
- VCVINEYARD CHURCH - CHARLOTTESVILLEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
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.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region and the most unlike its peers is Greg Gelburd Foundation. 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 39 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 86 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 Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds TANDEM SPIRITUALITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE HOME CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · William B McGuire Jr Family Foundation · The Perper Family Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Truist 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 Trent 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.