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Barnhill Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k25 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $698k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA | $230,000 |
| KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA | $115,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $102,000 |
| WAKEMED | $100,000 |
| NCINNOVATION INC | $100,000 |
| HELPING A HERO ORG | $100,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $67,500 |
| BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC | $54,614 |
| EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA | $50,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $46,000 |
| CENTER FOR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND LEADERSHIP DEVEL | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $452k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Barnhill Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +145%- ECEDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +268% · 49% of their budget
- HAHelping a HeroOrg5× · 2021–2025 · $463k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- UHUniversity Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -22%
TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +289% · 26% of their budget- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +27%
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.
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…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncf Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homeowners Impact Fund. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 154 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 UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds NCINNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESOLUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKERS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC TWIN-COUNTIES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UrbanPromise Charlotte ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- 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 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk Management
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 Barnhill 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% 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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