· Private foundation
Trade Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $250k+2 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECU Educational Foundation | $700,000 |
| Christ Covenant School | $250,000 |
| KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| SON SET MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| The Rogallo Foundation | $2,500 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +145%- PCPitt Community College Foundation Inc2× · 2019–2021 · $159k · revenue +29%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PCPITT COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $203k
- BCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +66%
- TRTHE REFUGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To foster and promote christian stewardship and for promoting and providing support to the ministries in north carolina affiliated with or consistent with the convention of original free will baptists and other charitable, education,…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
The corporation makes distributions to or for christian churches, ministries, and other charities
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
The foundation of unc charlotte receives contributions to promote and develop the academic and educational purpose of unc charlotte by providing support for operations, educational programs, and scholarships for the university and its…
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
The organization's mission is to educate elementary students through jesus christ-centered programs based on biblical truth and values, training and equipping them for a lifetime of learning, ledership, dedication, care for others, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is National Caregiving Foundation. 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.
26 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. 26 of the 94 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 CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SON SET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROGALLO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PITT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds J H ROSE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
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: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Trade 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.