· Public charity
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc
United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions.continued on schedule o.united way was founded 90 years ago in mecklenburg county as "emergency relief" to help people affected by the great depression through the power of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 210 grants below total $11,033,511 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,377,995 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $344,484 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k124 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k61 grants · $5.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING COLLABORATIVE | $1,178,487 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE | $284,207 |
| THE BULB GALLERY | $276,631 |
| LAKEWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE INC | $259,996 |
| CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $250,736 |
| ADA JENKINS FAMILIES AND CAREERS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $241,195 |
| THE LIFE PROJECT OF NORTH CAROLINA | $234,132 |
| CROSSROADS CORPORATION | $216,996 |
| SALVATION ARMY - CHARLOTTE AREA COMMAND | $207,771 |
| RENAISSANCE WEST COMMUNITY INITIATIVE | $197,871 |
| DESPIERTA | $169,500 |
| CHARLOTTE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER INC | $164,885 |
| OURBRIDGE INC | $152,246 |
| UNC CHARLOTTE | $146,825 |
| COMMUNITY LINK PROGRAMS OF TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF CENTRAL | $140,826 |
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 (FY17–25, $29.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
323 repeat relationships — 169 still active in FY2025, 154 since wound down; 37 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k 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
- SASafe Alliance Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +164%
- CRCare Ring Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +165%
- CSCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF NORTH CAROLINA LLCone grant, 2023 · $281k
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $218k
- SCSustain Charlotte Incone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -19%
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 Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
To promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care.
"Advance equity in education and child development for children and families."
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.
United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions.continued on schedule o.united way was founded 90 years ago in mecklenburg…
Dedicated to providing high quality residential and community services to individuals with developmental and other disabilities in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.
The mission of HHCDC is to identify the comprehensive challenges that threaten the well-being of the residents and businesses of Charlotte, build relationships within the community, and develop practical solutions that will improve access…
Service inner-city families
To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
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 Factors of the Seven. 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 22 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
430 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. 430 of the 511 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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 · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Womens Impact Fund · Albemarle Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Duke Energy Foundation · Philip L Van Every 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 United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc 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.