How much did GEORGE SMEDES POYNER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of GEORGE SMEDES POYNER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

activitieswakeeducationalchurchtriangle

2021

activitiesarteducationalwakechurchmuseum

2022

christactivitiesartchurcheducationalwakeraleigh

2023

activitieseducationaltransitionsmuseumwakeepiscopal church

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$600

Median grant

States reached

$915k

Total assets

Largest grants

KINDRED SPIRITS - A JAZZ NATIVITY$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY$5,000
NEEDHAM BROUGHTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE$4,000
NORTH CAROLINA OPERA$3,000
NORTH CAROLINA MARINE & ESTUARY FOUNDATION$3,000
ST MARY'S SCHOOL$2,000
NORTH CAROLINA ACQUARIUM SOCIETY$2,000
DOWNTOWN MOREHEAD CITY REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION$1,000
HEALING TRANSITIONS$1,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL$1,000
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
WOMEN'S GIVING NETWORK OF WAKE COUNTY$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$600

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$159k · 24 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$159k

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+8%

Still filing today

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

NC
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +265%
NORTH CAROLINA OPERA
4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +23%
HEALING TRANSITIONS
4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +124%

Funded once

SA
SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULES
one grant, 2019 · $38k
AN
ARTS NC STATE
one grant, 2020 · $5k
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

The University of North Carolina At

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education

North Carolina Museum of Life &

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Independent

To promote higher education at private colleges & universities in north carolina

Education

North Carolina Stage Company

To provide professional theatre and arts education programs to western north carolina.

Arts & Culture

Nc State University Partnership

To support and benefit north carolina state university with the aim of creating new knowledge and improving the lives of the people of north carolina.

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North Carolina Museum of History

To build public awareness of and provide funding to the nc museum of history.

Arts & Culture

Carolina Ballet Inc

Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Institute for

Crime & Legal

Elon University

Elon university's mission is to transform the mind, body, and spirit and encourage freedom of thought and liberty of conscience. the university provides a liberal arts undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs.

Education

Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated(see Sch O) to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical expertise…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The North Carolina Theatre and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina State University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$159,950Education$21,300Arts & Culture$19,800Human Services$8,000Health$8,000Philanthropy$4,300Environment$3,000Animals$100

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · United Arts Council of Raleigh · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Fenwick Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette 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 organisation GEORGE SMEDES POYNER 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTH CAROLINA OPERA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311486222 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTH CAROLINA OPERA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GEORGE SMEDES POYNER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc?

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GEORGE SMEDES POYNER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph