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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 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, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $1,373,582, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,612,224 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,238,642 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 $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
THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS$10,000
CIS OF HIGH POINT$10,000
MINISTERS' CONFERENCE OF HIGH POINT$10,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC$5,000
CITY OF HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
NCCJ$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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%YWCA OF HIGH POINT: $25k → 16%CARL CHAVIS YMCA: $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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of High Point University’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

High Point Universitylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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 Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
2
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Inc

The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").

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3
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
4
The Duke Endowment
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5
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

—
6
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
7
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
8
Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

Education
9
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
North Carolina Community Foundation

The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…

Philanthropy
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alamance Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYWCA Greensboro: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% 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 budgetHIGH POINT COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWEST END MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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 budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld North State Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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…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

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 High Point University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Point University. 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%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
    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 43 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.

    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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