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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.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$5.1MEducation$4.0MHealth$1.4MPhilanthropy$67kCommunity Improvement$49kYouth Development$42kRecreation & Sports$25kReligion$25k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $553k
  • $250k+4 grants · $8.1M
$42,390
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZERO TO THREE: $181k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $38k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $36k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $2k → 16%YMCA OF HIGH POINT: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREENSBORO: $25k → 16%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $1.4M → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 6 repeat orgs$6.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$3.9M
$49k

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RC
    READING CONNECTIONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $153k · revenue +9%
  • KF
    KELLIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $79k · revenue +14%
  • UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $67k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • JB
    James Bell Associates
    one grant, 2023 · $49k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Guilford County Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
2
Early Years Inc

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…

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3
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
4
Guilford Center for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Georgia Mountains Young Men's Christian Association Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services
6
Durham's Partnership for Children

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.

Education
7
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

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…

Education
8
Alamance Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
9
Orange County Partnership for Young Children

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.

Education
10
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
11
Wonderspring

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…

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12
FIRST3YEARS

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generationed; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $3,295,660 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina IncGENERATIONED: $1,426,266 · Human ServicesGENERATIONEDZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $181,437 · Human Services+4 more: $205,460 · Human ServicesREADY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE: $3,468,764 · EducationREADY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE+2 more: $115,414 · EducationGUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $1,407,416 · OtherGUILFORD COUNTY DEP…THE ENRICHMENT FUND FOR GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS INC: $209,000 · OtherTHE ENRICHMENT FUND…READING CONNECTIONS INC: $152,500 · OtherREADING CONNECTIONS…+3 more: $115,805 · Other+3 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $67,350 · PhilanthropyD-UP INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFaithAction International House: $25,000 · Religion
Human Services$5,108,823Education$3,584,178Other$1,884,721Philanthropy$67,350Recreation & Sports$25,000Religion$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE: $3,468,764 over 2y, 50% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $3,295,660 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetGENERATIONED: $1,426,266 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $181,437 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING CONNECTIONS INC: $152,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetKELLIN FOUNDATION: $79,020 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $76,440 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $73,790 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $67,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $41,624 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetD-UP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFaithAction International House: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Ready for School Read…Community Foundation …The Mary Lynn Richard…David and Claudia Bab…United Way of Greater…Moses Cone - Wesley L…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ready for School Ready for LifeNC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Get Ready Guilford funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Get Ready Guilford. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Get Ready Guilford?

Find your warmest path to Get Ready Guilford through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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