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A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc

Our mission is to assist the local food banks and pantries by replenishing their food banks every month, year round.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $3,724,661.

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Median grant
States reached
$477k
Total assets
02The need
02

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
2
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
3
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
4
Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
5
The Open Door of Perquimans County Inc

The mission of the open door of perquimans county, inc. is to eliminate hunger and improve the health and well-being of our community through access to healthy and nutritious foods, education, and advocacy.

6
Food Bank of Greenwood County

The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.

Food & Nutrition
7
Church Women United

Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…

8
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc

To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc

Established in 1983, Urban Ministries of Durham provides case management to end people's homelessness, offer emergency shelter, free meals, groceries, clothing, referral to needed resources, workforce and life skills training, and…

11
Collinsville Food Pantry

To provide, or make available, food products or other items to its patrons, donees, and/or beneficiaries.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Young Women's Christian Association of Yonkers

Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greensboro Urban Ministry and the most unlike its peers is I Am Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%12%<5yr16%12%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr20%31%35–55yr11%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr14%0%20–35yr20%0%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
17%
532/3,061

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.

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.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc IncNC35.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · High Point Community Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Weaver Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater High Point Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Clark Foundation Inc · Kontoor Brands Foundation · Foster 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.

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How do I get to A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc?

Find your warmest path to A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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