· Private foundation
Kemp Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,200 |
| CRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOODBURY FOREST SCHOOL | $3,300 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| DAWSON BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY SUPPORTING SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| EDUCATED CAINES ASSISTING WITH DISA | $2,000 |
| YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE | $2,000 |
| WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,250 |
| SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION | $1,250 |
| DGDC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +64%- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +146%
- YGYANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- WHWATHC HEALTHCARE PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NBNEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- GOGODDSPEED OPERA HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
The humane societys misison is to prevent cruelty and suffering among dogs and cats through rescue, adoption, and education.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The organization is dedicated to saving pets from certain death in shelters, prevent animal neglect and cruelty, and reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets.
The organization retrieves dogs from kill shelters and transports them to non kill shelters in the northern part of the united states. the dogs are then adopted. the adoption rate for the southern states is considerably lower than the…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Rescue and rehabilitation of great pyrenees dogs as companion animals into safe and caring homes in the u.s. and canada. our focus is on the rescue of dogs in southern kill shelters and transfer of animals in these overburdened regions…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.
The organization rescues and cares for boston terrier dogs until appropriate homes can be found, and provides transportation to the new home. the organization serves north carolina, and assists in south carolina, georgia, virginia, and…
How this is measured
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 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CROSSDOGS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN OF GOLDSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds CRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CANINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFYFIELD PHOENIX PROJECT CORP ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kemp Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kemp Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
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