· Public charity
Lumber River United Way
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.
The 11 grants below total $290,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $328,049 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN FAMILY VIOLENCE CTR | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $40,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $38,000 |
| DESIGNATIONS | $35,549 |
| ROBESON COUNTY 4-H | $29,000 |
| UNC HEALTH SOUTHEASTERN | $25,000 |
| RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF ROBESON COUNT | $20,000 |
| ROBESON HOUSE | $20,000 |
| HOKE COUNT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| HOKE COUNTY NC CO-OP EXT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 27%. 0% 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +138%
- RCROBESON COUNTY COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $387k · revenue +84%
- SRSOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $188k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LRLUMBER RIVERY UNITED WAYone grant, 2023 · $85k
- RCROBESON CO COMMITE OF DOMESTIC Vone grant, 2023 · $70k
- RCROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -4%
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.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Fostering and promoting the growth, progress, and general welfare of related robeson community college.
Promote agriculture and industry.
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Finding loving homes for adoptable animals & promoting responsible pet ownership w/emphasis on spaying/neutering.
To provide an environment where business and residents grow in economic prosperity, enjoy a vibrant community and value the sense of place which makes robertson county unique.
Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.
Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
To promote, advocate, support and provide opportunities for growth and sustainability of businesses in the rogersville area.
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robeson County Church and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Cape Fear Council Boy Scouts of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 41 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds LUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROBESON HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF ROBESON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LUMBERTON NC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Caton Family Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lumber River United Way 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.