· Private foundation
Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k198 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k23 grants · $649k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC | $1,023,400 |
| HIGH POINT POLICE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC | $325,000 |
| HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF THE TRIAD | $150,000 |
| THEBLAKE E ODUM MOTIVATIONAL FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF THE TRIAD | $115,000 |
| THEATRE ART GALLERIES | $113,066 |
| NC TRIAD FUSION INC | $110,000 |
| HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
125 repeat relationships — 115 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 104 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- WCWestchester Country Day School Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +6%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +92% · 42% of their budget
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc4× · 2019–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MIMaryfield Incone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +22%
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $366k · revenue +39%- GSGIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +12%
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.
To transform the high point, north carolina core-city area into an extraodinary and vibrant destination to live, work, study and play.
Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical Christian movement whose goal is to build safe, decent, affordable homes for our neighbors in need. Through conscience and action, Habitat utilizes volunteer labor…
The mission of Visit High Point is to position High Point as a destination that visitors will enjoy and that locals will want to promote.
The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…
Business high point, inc. is dedicated to encouraging economic growth in the piedmont triad region of north carolina. the chamber is an advocate for our members and our community on business-related issues and participates in initiatives…
Highpoint Center for Printmaking is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. We create pathways for artists, learners, and the public to increase their understanding and appreciation of printmaking through artistic and educational…
To serve as a catalyst for the continued development, transformation, and empowerment of communities in vance, granville, warren, and franklin counties in north carolina through the provision of leadership and programs in the areas of…
High point academy awakens the joy of learning in each child. the school provides a nurturing environment that enables each student to flourish academically, emotionally, morally, physically, and socially. the challenging curriculum…
Provide an outlet for the children of the high point, nc area to learn, grow, play and explore.
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…
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lyons Austin E Tuw. 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 287 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Westchester Country Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc ↗
- Who funds High Point Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Maryfield Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING HIGH POINT ↗
- Who funds Technology Student Association Kentucky Tech ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1) ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT DISCOVERED INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ART GALLERIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Associates of the Triad ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds EL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mt Zion Baptist Church ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds GO FAR Inc ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · High Point Community Foundation · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · McInnis Family Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater High Point Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Duke Energy 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 Earl and Kathryn Congdon 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.
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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