· Private foundation
George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEEDHAM BROUGHTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| KINDRED SPIRITS FOUNDATION - A JAZZ NATIVITY | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE | $4,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ACQUARIUM SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY F | $3,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA OPERA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CAPE LOOKOUT FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S GIVING NETWORK OF WAKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NCNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +450%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +25%
NORTH CAROLINA OPERA7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +9%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA ARTIST RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · 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 enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
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.
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…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
To strengthen nc's vibrant theatre industry and engage tomorrow's artist, audiences, and advocates.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.
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 North Carolina Marine and Estuary Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project 2 Heal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 73 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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OPERA ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE RALEIGH INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Morehead City Inc ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE LOOKOUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
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: Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher 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 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.
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.