· Private foundation
W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $13,000 |
| RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICE | $8,000 |
| MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| MYERS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CAMP SEAGULLCAMP SEAFARER | $1,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - SCHOOL OF EDUCATI | $1,000 |
| THEATER IN THE PARK | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- ATA TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +186%
Central City Concern3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +75%- EHEDISON HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ACADDIES CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
- RORCS OF NEW BERNone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
It is the oak hill school mission to build character and integrity in a christian environment for a lifetime of learning and service.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Omni Montessori School is dedicated to adhering to the teachings of Maria Montessori by providing a child-centered environment that offers an individualized and integrated curriculum for students age 3 - grade nine.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Building Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds InReach ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NORTH STATE INC ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 W Lester Brooks Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
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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