· Public charity
Get Ready Guilford
GET READY GUILFORD will provide oversight of financial resources for ready for school ready for life (ready ready) and a class of supported organizations who act to fulfill the mission of creating a collaborative, innovative system of care for guilford county's youngest children and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $553k
- $250k+4 grants · $8.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $3,295,660 |
| READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE | $2,017,775 |
| CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST | $1,426,266 |
| GUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES | $1,407,416 |
| ENRICHMENT FUND FOR GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $209,000 |
| ZERO TO THREE | $181,437 |
| READING CONNECTIONS | $88,750 |
| REACH OUT AND READ - NORTH CAROLINA | $73,790 |
| UNCG CONTRACT & GRANT ACCOUNTING | $42,390 |
| BOOK HARVEST | $41,624 |
| KELLIN FOUNDATION | $39,510 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $38,220 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $37,175 |
| FAITH ACTION INTERNATIONAL HOUSE | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENSBORO | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M 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
- RCREADING CONNECTIONS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $153k · revenue +9%
- KFKELLIN FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $79k · revenue +14%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $67k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- JBJames Bell Associatesone grant, 2023 · $49k
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.
The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
Guilford Center for Children, Inc. provides two major programs: an NAEYC accredited early education program for children ages 3 to 5 and a before and after school for children ages 5 through 12 years old for working families in Guilford.
To put christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…
The partnership shares information and mobilizes resources to support alamance county families in creating and sustaining nurturing environments for their children. our vision is that all children arrive at school happy, healthy and…
To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.
Children's services
Our mission is to provide pathways to quality education for children. our vision is to ensure all children have equitable access to high-quality education led by trusted professionals that engages families and has a measurable impact on…
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generationed and the most unlike its peers is D-Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONED ↗
- Who funds THE ENRICHMENT FUND FOR GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds READING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds KELLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds D-UP INC ↗
- Who funds FaithAction International House ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of High Point 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: Ready for School Ready for Life · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Get Ready Guilford 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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