· Public charity
Durham Public Schools Foundation
To catalyze big ideas and foster community engagement that will accelerate the transformation of durham public schools to ensure success and equity for every student.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $457,447 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $730,328 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $272,881 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $250k+1 grant · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $380,324 |
| TEACHER WAREHOUSE INC | $27,123 |
| NC STATE UNIVERSITY KENAN FELLOWS PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| KIND KITCHEN GROUP | $15,000 |
| EMPOWERING EDUCATION INC | $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 (FY21–21, $91k) 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- DPDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M
- DTDURHAM TEACHER WAREHOUSE CORP2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue -17% · 27% of their budget
- EEEMPOWERING EDUCATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $16k
Funded once
- SUSTUDENT Uone grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue -3%
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduatedone grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +696%
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
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.
Career access to every young black man
To catalyze big ideas and foster community engagement that will accelerate the transformation of durham public schools to ensure success and equity for every student.
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
Advance education social and cultural interests in the community of Durham maintain and improve infastructure encourage and promote preservation of the community.
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…
Partners for Youth Opportunity (PYO) disrupts systemic inequality by partnering with Durham youth to access the educational, economic, and social assets they need to experience a self-determined and sustainable life.
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center is a nonprofit charitable organization that serves as a unique and valuable resource for Triangle-area nonprofits, connecting people with opportunities to serve and providing nonprofits…
Believing in the potential of all children, LEAP empowers Latino and other children in Durham to achieve academic success by providing a high-quality preschool and on-going support through middle school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Echo System. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds DURHAM TEACHER WAREHOUSE CORP ↗
- Who funds KIND KITCHEN GROUP ↗
- Who funds Pupusas for Education ↗
- Who funds Echo System ↗
- Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Durham Public Schools 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.