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Foster 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HIGH POINT | $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 (FY17–23, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +146% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ODOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $871k · revenue +126%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $728k · revenue +219%
- CCCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +51%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +28%
- VJVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -21%
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.
(1) to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding in economics, finance, education & training, science, and technology throughout the community of high point, north carolina and its region with regard to…
The organization is a media group created to showcase the city of high point north carolina on a personal level. high point discovered is empowering people by telling stories and elevating the voices of our community. the purpose of high…
To promote health and wellness to the general public through the support of services and mission of high point regional health (dba atrium health wake forest baptist high point medical center).
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…
High point university's inspiring environment, caring people, and engaging education equip graduates for success and significance by cultivating the values, knowledge, mindset, and skills necessary to thrive in a competitive and rapidly…
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Our mission: united way of greater high point brings together people, resources, and funding to build strong and vibrant communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.our vision: united way of greater high point will be the…
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.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
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…
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…
Providing food and assistance to the disadvantaged in high point, nc
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is General Federation of Womens Club. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 51 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 OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc ↗
- Who funds High Point Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ART GALLERIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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: Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · McInnis Family Foundation · Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc · The Ann G and Vann York Foundation · Hayworth Foundation · The Clark Foundation Inc · Brayton Family Charitable Foundation · David R Hayworth Foundation · A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc · High Point Community 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 Foster 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.
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