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· 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.

$730k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.4MHuman Services$91kInternational$50kFood & Nutrition$22kEmployment$13kYouth Development$8kEnvironment$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $457,447, the rows itemized in this filing. The $730,328 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $272,881 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
  • $250k+1 grant · $380k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YMCA of the Triangle: $91k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 3 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+26%

Still filing today

33%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DP
    DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M
  • DT
    DURHAM TEACHER WAREHOUSE CORP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue -17% · 27% of their budget
  • EE
    EMPOWERING EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $16k

Funded once

  • SU
    STUDENT U
    one grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue -3%
  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +693%
  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Durham Success Summit Inc

Career access to every young black man

Public Benefit
2
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.

Education
3
Durham's Partnership for Children

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.

Education
4
Duke Energy Foundation
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5
The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center

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…

Philanthropy
6
Durham Home Inc
—
7
Durham Community Foundation

Advance education social and cultural interests in the community of Durham maintain and improve infastructure encourage and promote preservation of the community.

Human Services
8
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
9
Ywca Tri-County Area

Ywca tri-county area is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
10
Stem Skool Inc

Founded in 2017 by engineer-turned-educator Dr. GeAndra Imoudu, STEM Skool, Inc. is a Charlotte, NC-based non-profit organization that aims to increase interest, proficiency, and diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math to…

Education
11
Bee Geek Inc

Our programming supports the academic and technological advancement for residents and educational stakeholders throughout the Greater Triad communities, providing hands-on training to at risk youth and certification classes to aspiring…

Science & Tech
12
Urban Community Agri-Nomics Ucan

Urban community agrinomics' (ucan) mission is to reduce food insecurity, reduce and reverse preventable health issues, increase academic success, and increase exposure to career opportunities in the field of agriculture. ucans focus is to…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pupusas for Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,209,974 · OtherDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS+7 more: $102,956 · OtherSTUDENT U: $105,600 · EducationDURHAM TEACHER WAREHOUSE CORP: $32,123 · EducationPupusas for Education: $13,000 · Education+1 more: $999 · EducationThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $91,391 · Human ServicesWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $50,000 · InternationalKIND KITCHEN GROUP: $15,000 · Food & NutritionEcho System: $7,500 · EmploymentURBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC: $6,660 · Environment
Other$2,312,930Education$151,722Human Services$91,391International$50,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Employment$7,500Environment$6,660

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUDENT U: $105,600 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $91,391 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM TEACHER WAREHOUSE CORP: $32,123 over 2y, 27% of budgetKIND KITCHEN GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEcho System: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC: $6,660 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $999 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Durham Public Schools Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durham Public Schools Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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