How much did LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

librarygarden

2020

staffstudentsactivitieschristmas

2021

elementarystaffstudentsexemptactivitiesgardenchristmas

2022

elementaryexemptgardenchristmas

2023

exemptchristmas

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $35k
$10k–50k9 grants · $155k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY$25,000
SHEPHERDS CENTER$25,000
NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC$25,000
THE ENRICHMENT CENTER$20,000
KERNERSVILLE SALVATION ARMY$15,000
BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
KERNERSVILLE KIWANIS CLUB$10,000
KERNERSVILLE FAMILY YMCA$10,000
AUTHORING ACTION$5,000
FRIENDS OF KERNERSVILLE LIBRARY$5,000
EAST FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
HENSON CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
KERNERSVILLE MORAVIAN CHURCH$5,000
THE DIAPER BANK OF NC$5,000

02The need

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, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$892k · 22 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$892k

$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+4%

Still filing today

32%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

NS
NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +7%
CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY
4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +13%
KF
KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +136%

Funded once

FC
FORSYTH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $55k
NR
NC RESTAURANT & LODGING
one grant, 2020 · $28k
KD
KERNERSVILLE DOWNTOWN PRESERVATION
one grant, 2020 · $28k

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.

Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce

The organization merges the talents, skills and resources of the area business community for the purpose of developing economic opportunities, strengthening the business climate and enhancing the quality of life for its membership.

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Henderson County Chamber of

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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Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to promote and support the development of strong businesses and a vibrant economy in the northern kentucky region through leadership and advocacy, resulting in a better quality of life for all. our vision is to be the…

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Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

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North Carolina Independent

To promote higher education at private colleges & universities in north carolina

Education

Greater Winston-Salem

To facilitate growth and economic diversification in winston-salem and forsyth county.

Community Improvement

Chattanooga Chamber Foundation

To champion our member businesses and promote regional economic growth.

Philanthropy

Foundation for the Carolinas

Foundation for the carolinas is a non-profit community foundation serving donors and a broad range of charitable purposes in north and south carolina through grantmaking and civic leadership.

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech

The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

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Sc Chamber of Commerce

Be the leading voice for business in south carolina.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden. 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$747,450Human Services$210,000Arts & Culture$130,000Philanthropy$40,000Housing & Shelter$27,500Education$27,500Environment$25,000

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.

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 FoundationNC19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Kernersville Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 522168471 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation?

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LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation?

More from the funding graph