· Public charity
Upstream Works
Upstream Works Collaborative provides creative,accessible service solutions to help changemakers navigate complex challenges.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Food Policy Council Inc | $13,350 |
| Men and Women United for Youth & Families | $13,025 |
| Kind Kitchen Group | $13,000 |
| West Marion Community Forum Inc | $12,900 |
| Toxic Free NC | $12,500 |
| Gaston Family Health Services Inc | $10,125 |
| Island Culturez | $8,850 |
| Farmer Foodshare | $7,750 |
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 (FY24–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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.
Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective is a free and charitable clinic and social safety net. Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, their babies and children through community-based, holistic…
To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.
Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives
The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…
Together we connect, share, and celebrate nutritious food, education and community.
Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…
Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…
To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…
Catalyze people and institutions to implement sustainable cross-sector diversity practices that result in economic growth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sankofa Birth Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 Upstream Works ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds Sankofa Birth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH ↗
- Who funds BREASTFEEDING FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HEARTS HELPING EACH ADOLESCENT REACH THEIR SPARK ↗
- Who funds MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIND KITCHEN GROUP ↗
- Who funds WEST MARION INC ↗
- Who funds TOXIC FREE NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CULTUREZ ↗
- Who funds FARMER FOODSHARE 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: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Carolina Farm Stewardship Association · Strowd Roses Inc · Duke University · Impactassetsinc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Upstream Works 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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