How much does Flow Foundation Inc give?

Flow Foundation Inc reported 53 grants totaling $1,458,881 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Flow Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Community Improvement (15%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are Flow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wake Forest University ($1.1M), United Way of Forsyth County Inc ($996k), Winston Starts ($530k).

Does Flow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Flow Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Flow Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc.

Where is Flow Foundation Inc based?

Flow Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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North Carolina · 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 53
Grants FY2024: 60
Organizations funded FY2023: 12%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $352,666
Organizations funded a year: 51 to 61; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $395k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Flow Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	52	$1.4M	25%
FY2023	60	$1.6M	12%
FY2022	56	$1.4M	13%
FY2021	51	$921k	6%
FY2020	57	$1.1M	9%
FY2019	52	$1.0M	8%
FY2018	58	$975k	21%
FY2017	61	$1.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MReligion$1.2MRecreation & Sports$943kArts & Culture$933kHuman Services$530kHealth$177kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wake Forest University	$1,132,666	6	0%
United Way of Forsyth County Inc	$996,125	8	1%
Winston Starts	$530,000	4	18%
In Medias Res	$490,000	7	5%
Regent College Foundation	$290,000	7	8%
National Cycling Center Inc	$225,000	4	22%
The Summit School Incorporated	$196,000	8	0%
Love Out Loud	$170,138	7	5%
University Christian Ministries Inc	$162,500	4	4%
Young Women's Christian Association of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County	$134,424	8	2%

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All grantees of Flow Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wake Forest University	$1,132,666	6	0%
United Way of Forsyth County Inc	$996,125	8	1%
Winston Starts	$530,000	4	18%
In Medias Res	$490,000	7	5%
Regent College Foundation	$290,000	7	8%
National Cycling Center Inc	$225,000	4	22%
The Summit School Incorporated	$196,000	8	0%
Love Out Loud	$170,138	7	5%
University Christian Ministries Inc	$162,500	4	4%
Young Women's Christian Association of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County	$134,424	8	2%
Porters Call	$128,229	8	4%
Salem Academy and College	$125,000	3	0%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes	$85,500	8	0%
Telemachus Foundation Inc	$80,000	8	8%
Senior Services Inc	$79,500	8	0%
Higher Education Works Foundation	$70,000	7	n/a
Global Leadership Network	$65,000	3	n/a
HopeWay Foundation	$60,000	3	0%
The Refuge Center for Counseling Inc	$55,000	3	3%
Young Life	$54,900	7	0%
Reynolda House Inc	$52,950	7	1%
Greater Winston-Salem Inc	$52,500	3	1%
The Arts Council Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Crosby Scholars Community Partnership	$50,000	1	1%
Abc of Nc Foundation	$50,000	5	2%
Theology of Work Project Inc	$50,000	2	5%
Flywheel Foundation	$40,000	3	6%
Mission Emanuel	$40,000	8	0%
Winston-Salem Street School	$35,000	8	1%
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ	$32,500	3	1%
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County Inc	$30,500	8	0%
Friends of the Great Commission	$30,000	1	0%
The New City Commons Foundation	$27,540	1	5%
Manna Food Bank Inc	$25,000	1	0%
East-West Ministries International	$25,000	1	0%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Winston-Salem Symphony Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Authoring Action	$20,000	8	1%
Chris Paul Family Foundation Inc	$20,000	4	2%
Piedmont Craftsmen Inc	$19,750	8	1%
SECCA Foundation	$18,500	8	1%
Winston-Salem Police Foundation Inc	$16,667	2	8%
Union Baptist Church	$16,500	1	n/a
Amani Childrens Foundation	$16,500	8	1%
Latino Community Services	$15,000	6	4%
Center for Religious Humanism	$15,000	1	2%
Greenest	$12,500	3	1%
National Sports Media Association Inc	$10,000	1	5%
The Taylor Group Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Bethesda Center for the Homesless Inc	$10,000	2	n/a
Goler Community Development Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Belmont University	$10,000	1	0%
Crisis Control Ministry Inc	$9,500	8	0%
Associates in Christian Counseling	$9,500	6	0%
Helen Simoneau Danse Inc	$7,500	6	1%
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem Inc	$6,000	4	7%
The Sawtooth School for Visual Art	$5,000	1	n/a
North Carolina Housing Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	5%
City With Dwellings Community First Initiative	$5,000	1	1%
Florida Fellowship Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	2%
FRIENDS OF EAST BEND TOWN SQUARE Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Trinity Episcopal Church	$3,000	5	n/a
The Care Project	$2,500	1	1%
Triad Amateur Swim Association	$2,350	1	n/a
Teachbeyond Inc	$2,000	2	n/a
Archbishop Rummel High School	$1,250	5	n/a
Metairie Park Country Day School	$500	1	0%
Samaritan Ministries	$200	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Flow Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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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.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC63.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Flow Foundation Inc

How much does Flow Foundation Inc give?: Flow Foundation Inc reported 53 grants totaling $1,458,881 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Flow Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Community Improvement (15%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Flow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wake Forest University ($1.1M), United Way of Forsyth County Inc ($996k), Winston Starts ($530k).
Does Flow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Flow Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Flow Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc.
Where is Flow Foundation Inc based?: Flow Foundation Inc is based in NC.