· Private foundation
Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPHERDS CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| HASTEN INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $15,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE KIWANIS CLUB | $10,000 |
| THE DIAPER BANK OF NC | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KERNERSVILLE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| EAST FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE MORAVIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNEXT STEP MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +17%
CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +99%- TETHE ENRICHMENT CENTER AN AFFILIATED CHAPTER OF THE ARC4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FCFORSYTH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $28k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $28k
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.
Promotion activities for downtown kernersville.
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…
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
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.
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…
Planning the future of the city of wilson and county of wilson, nc, based on meetings and dialogue with local citizens and leaders.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
To protect and strengthen the wilmington business community and help businesses grow and thrive by providing members with business-building programs and events to help them connect and do business with one another.
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…
Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
To provide accessibility to heathful, regionally grown or produced food for all residents and vistors regardless of income levels. to provide an educational forum for consumers to learn the uses and benefits of quality, locally grown or…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 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 NEXT STEP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENRICHMENT CENTER AN AFFILIATED CHAPTER OF THE ARC ↗
- Who funds KORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL J CIENER BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HASTEN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Kernersville Middle School PTSA ↗
- Who funds Sedge Garden Elementary PTA Aug start ↗
- Who funds Authoring Action ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Kernersville Foundation Inc · The Arts Council Inc · Flow Foundation Inc · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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