· Private foundation
Tw Percy B Ferebee Endowment
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k49 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE HOUSE FOUNDATION OF WNC INC | $13,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,000 |
| THE STILL PLACE INC | $6,517 |
| MOUNTAIN DISCOVERY | $6,500 |
| BRASSTOWN COMMUNITY CIVIC CENTER INC | $6,500 |
| LIFE CHALLENGE OF WESTERN NORTHCAROLINA | $6,483 |
| MAITLYN REWIS CO WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV | $2,644 |
| APPALACHIAN ST UNIV FBO WILLOW TRANTHAM | $2,644 |
| APPALACHIAN ST UNIV FBO COOPER HYATT | $2,644 |
| RACHEL CLINE CO WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV | $2,644 |
| JADYN PEREZ CO UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA | $2,644 |
| JENA BALDWIN CO UNIV OF NORTH GEORGIA | $2,644 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV FBO CHLOE ROE | $2,644 |
| KENNETH DOCKERY CO APPALACHIAN ST UNIV | $2,644 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV FBO SARAH GIBBY | $2,644 |
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 (FY17–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 31 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- BCBRASSTOWN COMMUNITY CIVIC CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $16k
- HHHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue -83%
- AEANDREWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO2× · 2020–2021 · $12k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $38k
- SMSMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATREone grant, 2021 · $30k
- NSNC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
The restoration house wnc seeks to provide a holistic approach to restoring life and hope to the outcasts and others in need of healing who come to us for help.
Preservation of historical cabin
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Restore, Rebuild, and Revive Western NC
Building and maintaining a hiking trail for the public between Clayton, Georgia and Cashiers, North Carolina
To preserve and educate about the agricultural way of life.
Museum display nc state handicrafts
History museum
To provide respite for women with cancer with the intention of connection and healing, mind, body and spirit
To provide food and clothing to needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Services of Swain Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guiding Sheep Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 149 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 SMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Hospice House Foundation of WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE STILL PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Discovery School ↗
- Who funds Life Challenge of Western North Car ↗
- Who funds NO WRONG DOOR FOR SUPPORT AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds NIKWASI INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GUIDING SHEEP MINISTRIES ↗
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: Dogwood Health Trust · Nantahala Health Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tw Percy B Ferebee Endowment 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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