· Private foundation
Kontoor Brands Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT | $25,000 |
| A SIMPLE GESTURE GREENSBORO INC | $25,000 |
| PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS | $25,000 |
| THE SERVANT CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| A SPECIAL BLEND INC | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLI | $7,000 |
| OAK RIDGE METHODIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $7,000 |
| ONE STEP FURTHER INCORPORATED | $7,000 |
| HORSEPOWER INC | $7,000 |
| NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBBACKPACK BEGINNINGS3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +66%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +3%
- PEPARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS2× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%
Funded once
United States Association for UNHCRone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -62%- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -23%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
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…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
Greensboro housing coalition is the advocate for fair, safe, and affordable housing. we help homeowners keep their homes by preventing foreclosure and promoting home maintenance. we help tenants resolve problems with their landlords to…
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
We mobilize people and resources to improve lives, strengthen the community and advance equity for the benefit of all.
To distribute emergency food assistance to individuals and families in the greenville area, and to cooperate with partnering agencies so that recipients have access to the greatest number of nutritional resources.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greensboro Urban Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Get in the Game. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SERVANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KELLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds A SPECIAL BLEND INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Positive Direction for Youth and Families Inc ↗
- Who funds GET IN THE GAME ↗
- Who funds SIT IN MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE STEP FURTHER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · Weaver Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Foundation for a Healthy High Point · The Cemala Foundation Inc
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 Kontoor Brands Foundation 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.
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.