· Private foundation
Borden 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $20,000 |
| WAKE MED FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY-WAYNE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SHRINE MONT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DOWNTOWN GOLDSBORO DEVELOPMENT CORP | $5,000 |
| WAYNE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HANDLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 9 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +22%
BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +4%- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL2× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCPOAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- KAKITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UWUNITED WAY-WAYNE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.
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…
Wayne country day school is committed to challenge and nurture its students in a safe, diverse environment and to inspire them to commit themselves to excellence in preparation for college and the world beyond.
Provide a dynamic information resource designed to satisfy the educational, cultural, and literary needs of the public.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
How this is measured
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NW WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GOLDSBORO DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP INC WAYNE CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Borden Fund Inc · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · R a Bryan Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · M & J Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Southern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Borden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Borden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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