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High Point University

HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY's inspiring environment, caring people, and engaging education equip graduates for success and significance by cultivating the values, knowledge, mindset, and skills necessary to thrive in a competitive and rapidly changing world.

$97M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$19MEducation$3.9MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$670kArts & Culture$535kReligion$225kRecreation & Sports$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $1,373,582 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $96,612,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,238,642 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION$525,000
HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
UNITED WAY OF HIGH POINT INC$148,082
PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP$125,000
HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM F$10,500
MINISTERS' CONFERENCE OF HIGH POINT$10,000
CIS OF HIGH POINT$10,000
THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS$10,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC$5,000
NCCJ$5,000
PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
CITY OF HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY OF HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $130k → 16%CITY OF HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20k → 16%CITY OF HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 16%Carl Chavis YMCA: $1.0M → 16%CARL CHAVIS YMCA: $25k → 16%CARL CHAVIS YMCA: $25k → 16%YWCA OF HIGH POINT: $25k → 16%YWCA OF HIGH POINT: $15k → 16%YWCA OF HIGH POINT: $15k → 16%HARTLEY DRIVE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of High Point University’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

High Point Universitylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 14 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$4.7M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TY
    The YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1)
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +26% · 80% of their budget
  • PT
    PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP
    7× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +96%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $266k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • BC
    BENNETT COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue -46%
  • SE
    SHIFT EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -40%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +31%

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

04Your field

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.

1
High Point Discovered Inc

The organization is a media group created to showcase the city of high point north carolina on a personal level. high point discovered is empowering people by telling stories and elevating the voices of our community. the purpose of high…

Community Improvement
2
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
3
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…

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4
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
5
North Carolina Chamber

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…

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6
High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Visit High Point

The mission of Visit High Point is to position High Point as a destination that visitors will enjoy and that locals will want to promote.

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7
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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8
High Point University

High point university's inspiring environment, caring people, and engaging education equip graduates for success and significance by cultivating the values, knowledge, mindset, and skills necessary to thrive in a competitive and rapidly…

Education
9
Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc

Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…

Community Improvement
10
The North Carolina Leadership Charter Academy Inc

The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…

Education
11
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…

Employment
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Duke Energy Foundation. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr12%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr15%3%20–35yr14%75%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
15%
4,477/29,056

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.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

High Point Community Foundation — $18,000,000 · PhilanthropyHigh Point Community FoundationUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $641,268 · Philanthropy+2 more — $350,000 · PhilanthropyHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $1,650,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER A…BENNETT COLLEGE — $1,025,000 · EducationBENNETT COLLEGESHIFT EDUCATION — $1,000,000 · EducationSHIFT EDUCATION+2 more — $40,000 · EducationHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH — $1,000,000 · HealthHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $265,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC — $100,000 · Health+1 more — $40,000 · HealthThe YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1) — $1,205,287 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC — $55,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF HIGH POINT — $254,250 · OtherMt Zion Baptist Church — $100,000 · OtherYWCA Greensboro — $100,000 · OtherMINISTER'S CONFERENCE OF HIGH POINT — $80,000 · OtherBUSINESS HIGH POINT INC D/B/A HIGH POINT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $70,000 · OtherTHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC — $48,000 · Other+14 more — $220,300 · OtherNIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $500,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $350,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$18,991,268Education$3,715,000Health$1,405,500Human Services$1,270,287Other$922,550Arts & Culture$535,000Community Improvement$350,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHigh Point Community Foundation — $18,000,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $1,650,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetThe YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1) — $1,205,287 over 4y, 80% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE — $1,025,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSHIFT EDUCATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $641,268 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetNIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $500,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $350,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $265,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetYWCA Greensboro — $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBUSINESS HIGH POINT INC D/B/A HIGH POINT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $70,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC — $48,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWEST END MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHIGH POINT COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc — $10,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HIGH POINT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld North State Council Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…Community Foundation …High Point Community …Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Foundation for the Ca…Lenny Peters Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationLincoln Financial Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · High Point Community Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Lenny Peters Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 High Point University 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $108M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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