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Handson Northwest North Carolina

The organization builds and strengthens the capacity of nonprofit organizations and works to increase volunteerism in the forsyth, davie, davidson, yadkin, stokes and surry county areas of north carolina.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$70kYouth Development$68kHealth$43kHuman Services$43kArts & Culture$43kEducation$20kCrime & Legal$15kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $111,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONORABLE YOUTH INC$22,500
SMILEY'S SWEETS$15,000
LIVING IS FINALLY ENJOYABLE WS$7,500
ABC OF FORSYTH COUNTY$7,500
NC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS$7,500
FAMILY LOVE AND INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM$7,500
PIEDMONT WIND SYMPHONY$7,500
COMUNIDAD MUJER VALIOSA$7,500
18 SPRINGS COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER$7,500
DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NWNC$7,500
COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO$7,500
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 (FY22–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NWNC: $8k → 15%DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NWNC: $8k → 15%ABC OF FORSYTH COUNTY: $8k → 15%ABC OF FORSYTH COUNTY: $8k → 15%NATIONAL BIRTH COALITION: $10k → 15%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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 3 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$45k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • DA
    DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NORTHWEST NC INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +77%
  • AB
    Asset Building Coalition of Forsyth County
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO OF NORTH CAROLINA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k

Funded once

  • HH
    Happy Hill Neighborhood Association INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TW
    The Wells Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -24%
  • IC
    ISLAND CULTUREZ
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -76%
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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
Women Thriving Inc

Women Thriving creates opporunities for women facing economic social and racial inequalities.

Human Services
3
Abw living Tree Community Wellness Center

community education

Health
4
African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh Wake County Inc

To promote, preserve and celebrate African American cultural and heritage through artistic expression and education culminating in a cultural festival held in downtown Raleigh, see schdule O for more info.

Arts & Culture
5
The Black Collaborative Inc
Community Improvement
6
River City Community Development Corporation

Strengthen communities and improve the quality of life in Northeastern NC. Provide affordable housing, economic and workforce development, health and wellness, cultural awareness and youth empowerment. Create a future where all residents…

Housing & Shelter
7
Healing Cultures Inc
Health
8
Mama Bird Doula Services

To improve the outcomes for Black Indigenous and People of Color, BIPOC, maternal health and their babies in our community.

Health
9
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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10
Create and Get Empowered

community redevelopment through Arts and Education

Youth Development
11
Black Girl Brown Girl Collective Inc

The Black Girl Brown Girl Collective Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit that aims to celebrate and create platforms for all women to share their art through organizing educational, cultural and arts events and providing other arts-related social…

Arts & Culture
12
Somali Cultural Center

Amplifying Somali Voices & Building Communities

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagles of Grace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rebeca Segebre Ministries 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

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HONORABLE YOUTH INC: $22,500 · OtherHONORABLE YOUTH INCONE LOVE STRONG FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherONE LOVE STRONG FOUNDATIONTRE 4 CENTER OF FINE ARTS INC: $15,000 · OtherTRE 4 CENTER OF FINE ARTS INCSMILEYS SWEETS: $15,000 · OtherSMILEYS SWEETSCOMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO OF NORTH CAROLINALEANBACK GIVEBACK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLEANBACK GIVEBACK FOUNDATIONPOLISH FOR GIRLS: $10,000 · OtherPOLISH FOR GIRLSSCATTERED SEEDS: $10,000 · OtherSCATTERED SEEDSJOURNEE BEES VILLAGE: $10,000 · OtherJOURNEE BEES VILLAGEANGELIC WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherANGELIC WARRIOR FOUNDATION INCUrban STEAM Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherUrban STEAM Foundation IncANULI PREGNANCY CARE SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherANULI PREGNANCY CARE SERVICESROYAL CURTAIN DRAMA GUILD INC: $10,000 · OtherROYAL CURTAIN DRAMA GUILD INCLIVING IS FINALLY ENJOYABLE WS INC: $7,500 · OtherFAMILY LOVE AND INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM: $7,500 · OtherDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY ADV…Asset Building Coalition of Forsyth County: $15,000 · Human ServicesAsset Building…The National Birth Coalition: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe National B…Happy Hill Neighborhood Association INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementHappy Hill…ISLAND CULTUREZ: $15,000 · Community ImprovementISLAND CUL…RED HAWKS AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRED HAWKS…DOSE COLLECTIVE CORP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDOSE COLL…PIEDMONT WIND SYMPHONY: $7,500 · Arts & CulturePIEDMONT …The Wells Center Inc: $15,000 · ReligionRebeca Segebre Ministries Inc: $7,500 · ReligionEAGLES OF GRACE INC: $10,000 · Youth Development18 SPRINGS COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthNC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS (NCCLO): $7,500 · Civil Rights
Other$177,500Human Services$40,000Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$27,500Religion$22,500Youth Development$10,000Health$7,500Civil Rights$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Wells Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetISLAND CULTUREZ: $15,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetAsset Building Coalition of Forsyth County: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetEAGLES OF GRACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetRED HAWKS AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURE: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDOSE COLLECTIVE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budget18 SPRINGS COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPIEDMONT WIND SYMPHONY: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRebeca Segebre Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS (NCCLO): $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…The Arts Council IncZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC33.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Arts Council Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · 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 Handson Northwest North Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Handson Northwest North Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 28 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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