· Private foundation
Lawrence & Etta Lea Pope Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 KIWANIS CLUB | $10,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| AUTHORING ACTION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KERNERSVILLE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| EAST FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KERNERSVILLE MORAVIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HENSON CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE DIAPER BANK OF NC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $210k) 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 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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- NSNEXT STEP MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +17%
CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +99%- KFKORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- FCFORSYTH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $28k
- FTFORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +36%
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.
Promotion activities for downtown kernersville.
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.
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…
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 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 Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
As a non-profit organization, the Lewisville-Clemmons Chamber of Commerce is committed to the success of its members, as well as providing for them to connect, grow, and thrive with others.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kernersville Middle School Ptsa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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 NEXT STEP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KERNERSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENRICHMENT CENTER AN AFFILIATED CHAPTER OF THE ARC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL J CIENER BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Kernersville Middle School PTSA ↗
- Who funds Sedge Garden Elementary PTA Aug start ↗
- Who funds KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Authoring Action ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.
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