How much did Underdown Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Underdown Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

catawba

2019

valleycatawba

2020

catawba

2021

churchcatawba

2022

catawba valley

2023

pantry

2024

ridgeviewsummer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $45k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
Catawba County Partnership for Children$2,500
Council on Adolescents of Catawba$2,500
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central$2,500
Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas$2,000
Rising Hope Farms Inc$2,000
Pregnancy Care Center of Catawba$2,000
Catawba County Hispanic Ministry Inc$2,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$415k · 24 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$415k

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+23%

Still filing today

58%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

CC
Carolina Caring Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +81%
HM
Hickory Museum of Art Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +24%
CC
Catawba County Council on Aging
5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +122%

Funded once

EO
EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +50%
CV
CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +2%
FR
FRYE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $7k

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.

Hickory Soup Kitchen Inc

Provide daily meal to the homeless and indigent of catawba county.

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Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Provide quality healthcare to the people of edgecombe, nash and wilson counties.

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Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services

Carolina Community Care Inc

To give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most.

—

Chapel Pointe At Carlisle

Provide comfortable retirement living and care to residents in a secure, christian environment.

Human Services

Carolina Health Centers Inc

Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.

Health

Carolina Village Inc

To maintain and operate a retirement home, medical center, and assisted living center.

Housing & Shelter

Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter

Hospice Care of the Lowcountry Inc

Provide hospice care and palliative care for patients in beaufort and jasper co's, sc.

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High Country Behavioral Health

HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Health

Cattaraugus Rehabilitation Center Inc

The cattaraugus rehabilitation center is an organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities through supports and services.

Human Services

Carolina Pregnancy Center

We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Hickory Cooperative and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Care Center of Catawba. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

18%

1,287/7,128

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.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$225,189Arts & Culture$94,400Human Services$94,150Health$57,500Education$17,500Philanthropy$14,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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.

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.

George Foundation IncNC48.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne

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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Rising Hope Farms Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270876179 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 Rising Hope Farms Inc, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% 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.

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Find your warmest path to Underdown Family Foundation 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.

Underdown Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Underdown Family Foundation?

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Underdown Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Underdown Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph