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Underdown Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity of Catawba | $10,000 |
| Catawba Science Center Inc | $10,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $5,000 |
| Carolina Caring Inc | $5,000 |
| Hickory Museum of Art Inc | $3,500 |
| The Western Piedmont Symphony | $3,000 |
| YMCA of Catawba Valley | $3,000 |
| Hart Square Foundation Inc | $3,000 |
| Council on Adolescents of Catawba | $2,500 |
| Catawba County Partnership for Children | $2,500 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central | $2,500 |
| Catawba County Hispanic Ministry Inc | $2,000 |
| Rising Hope Farms Inc | $2,000 |
| Safe Harbor of NC Inc | $2,000 |
| Hospitality House | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CSCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +21%
- CCCAROLINA CARING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +39%
- HMHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- EOEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -33%
- CVCATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +118%
- FRFRYE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To help relieve hunger in our community. we recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. however, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the…
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.
Carolina village is a not for-profit full-service retirement facility for senior citizens with a mission to provide housing, continuing life care, up-to-date service, and a pleasant, congenial social environment to encourage personal…
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.
Provide services for elderly
To provide services, education, and information that promote quality of life and active aging for senior citizens.
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
To serve the state, member counties, municipalities and local community with job growth, employee training, and community development, planning services and economic development support.
Low-rent government assisted housing for the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Rising Hope Farms Inc. 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 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 46 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 CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CARING INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE LEAGUE OF HICKORY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Rising Hope Farms Inc ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ADULT LIFE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS PLACE ↗
- Who funds BIG HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CORNER TABLE 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: George Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Harold and Margaret Deal Foundation · Hambrick Family 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 Underdown 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.
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