· Private foundation
William C Ethridge 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $358k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Raleigh Rescue Mission | $107,500 |
| Lucy Daniels Preschool | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Food Bank of North Carolina | $35,000 |
| Foundation of Hope | $30,000 |
| Marbles Kid Museum | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| NC Zoo Society | $27,500 |
| SAFEchild | $27,500 |
| Interact | $25,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 |
| Healing Transitions | $25,000 |
| Boys Club of Wake County | $15,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| Transitions LifeCare | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC6× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +86%
THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +67%- HOHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2021 · $25k
- KCKids Clubone grant, 2021 · $10k
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +232%
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.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
To break the cycle of poverty and create multi-generational self-sufficiency for the individuals and families of wake county by helping them achieve housing and income security.
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…
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."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Family Services 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 62 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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DIAPER TRAIN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Maynard Family 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 William C Ethridge 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 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.