· Private foundation
Flow Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $536k
- $250k+2 grants · $603k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wake Forest University | $352,666 |
| Winston Starts | $250,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $178,490 |
| United Way of Forsyth County | $127,375 |
| In Medias Res Educational Foundation | $70,000 |
| Love Out Loud | $60,000 |
| Virginia Athletics Foundation | $50,000 |
| Crosby Scholars Community Partnership | $50,000 |
| YWCA of Winston Salem and Forsyth County | $37,500 |
| Friends of the Great Commission | $30,000 |
| Manna Food Bank | $25,000 |
| University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce | $25,000 |
| Greater Winston-Salem Inc | $17,500 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $15,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +30%- WSWINSTON STARTS4× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +221%
- IMIN MEDIAS RES7× · 2017–2023 · $490k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- NINC Innovation Fundone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WSWINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - WINSTON SALEM RISEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
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 recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
The mission of winston-salem center for education and the arts is to enrich the winston-salem community by providing operating space and nurturing non-profit organizations that offer intellectual and spiritual growth through education and…
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…
To cultivate curious, collaborative, and creative thinkers in a christ-centered community.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
To be a hub of Christian life and spiritual formation for Wake Forest University students, faculty, staff, and its broader community.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Care Project. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 114 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON STARTS ↗
- Who funds IN MEDIAS RES ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds REGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CYCLING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PORTERS CALL ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE 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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation · Twin City Development 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 Flow Foundation Inc 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.