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High Point Community Foundation
The High Point Community Foundation is a catalyst for positive change that promotes philanthropy, administers an expanding grants program and serves as a trustworthy partner in responding to community needs. Our vision is to establish and sustain a permanent financial resource that supports a diverse, healthy, and productive community…
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $540k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,813
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,078
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $131M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations High Point Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $540k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $500k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $476k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $479k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $414k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $365k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $329k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $369k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $198,631 | 5 | n/a |
| West End Ministries | $195,778 | 8 | 5% |
| Guilford Co Public Schools | $184,560 | 6 | n/a |
| Guilford Education Alliance | $167,046 | 6 | 5% |
| D-Up Inc | $164,485 | 6 | 6% |
| High Point Community Against Violence Inc | $157,410 | 8 | 26% |
| Helping Hands High Point Inc | $146,501 | 5 | 4% |
| Community Housing Solutions of Guilford Inc | $144,963 | 5 | 2% |
| Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc | $133,284 | 4 | 2% |
| Macedonia Family Resource Center I | $108,100 | 5 | 14% |
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Where it is load-bearing
High Point Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Foundation for a Healthy High Point · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation
How this is measured
About High Point Community Foundation
- How much does High Point Community Foundation give?
- High Point Community Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $540,000, out of $7,365,860 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does High Point Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are High Point Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($199k), West End Ministries ($196k), Guilford Co Public Schools ($185k).
- Does High Point Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as High Point Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc, The Foundation for a Healthy High Point, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc.
- Where is High Point Community Foundation based?
- High Point Community Foundation is based in NC.
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