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Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$501k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$9.1MInternational$3.0MArts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$985kRecreation & Sports$589kReligion$509kPublic Safety & Disaster$392kPublic Benefit$253kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $481k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
$18,151
Median grant
4
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation$501,000
Elon University$496,532
DeJoy Scholar Program$334,001
Institute of World Politics$281,261
Duke University$279,103
The Fund for American Studies$120,653
Samaritan's Purse$100,000
American Red Cross$100,000
Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation$90,000
United Way of Greater Greensboro$70,568
United Way of Greater High Point$26,136
Miriam P Brenner Children's Museum$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Piedmont Triad Partnership$25,000
UNCW$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%Grandfather Community Foundation: $10k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%TRELLIS SUPPORTIVE CARE: $250 → 15%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $3k → 16%Sanctuary House: $1k → 16%Sanctuary House: $1k → 16%WELL SPRING SOLUTIONS: $10k → 16%Well-Spring Solutions: $8k → 16%WELL SPRING SOLUTIONS: $8k → 16%Well-Spring Solutions: $8k → 16%WELL SPRING SOLUTIONS: $8k → 16%AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 57 repeat orgs$594k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
86

Total granted

$17M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +51%
  • Elon University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +43%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • VP
    VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +450%
  • BC
    BENNETT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -46%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/a Wyndham Championship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 155 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
59/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,307,106 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYElon University: $2,745,102 · EducationElon University+19 more: $561,650 · Education+19 moreTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $876,153 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIESPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP: $849,000 · OtherPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUND…LDJ GLOBAL STRATEGIES-DEJOY SCHOLAR PROGRAM: $573,507 · OtherLDJ GLOBAL STRATEGIES-DEJOY SCH…DeJoy Scholar Program: $547,510 · OtherDeJoy Scholar ProgramST PIUS X CHURCH: $468,966 · OtherST PIUS X CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherOur Lady of Mercy Academy: $182,250 · Other+87 more: $1,064,921 · Other+87 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $2,257,841 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE O…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $88,151 · International+5 more: $69,100 · InternationalVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,620,500 · Arts & CultureVICTIMS OF …+11 more: $212,300 · Arts & Culture+11 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $389,568 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $96,136 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyGREENSBORO POLICE FOUNDATION: $155,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPOSTAL EMPLOYEES RELIEF FUND: $81,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+2 more: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesWELL-SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesGrandfather Community Foundation Inc: $10,010 · Human ServicesINNERVISION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSanctuary House Inc: $4,500 · Human Services+4 more: $1,750 · Human Services
Education$7,613,858Other$4,812,307International$2,415,092Arts & Culture$1,832,800Philanthropy$542,704Public Safety & Disaster$242,000Human Services$128,760

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,307,106 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $2,745,102 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $2,257,841 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,620,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $876,153 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP: $849,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $389,568 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREENSBORO POLICE FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP: $125,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $96,136 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $88,151 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetPOSTAL EMPLOYEES RELIEF FUND: $81,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetICIVICS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWinston Salem Professional Tennis Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $60,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTRIAD STAGE INC: $40,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWELL-SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $33,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetVICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCW CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF POLISH CULTURE INC: $10,100 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGrandfather Community Foundation Inc: $10,010 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONSTITUTING AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINNERVISION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParents for Educational Freedom in NC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Mecklenburg Police Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSanctuary House Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Defense Forum Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
  • Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC ↗
  • Who funds POSTAL EMPLOYEES RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Winston Salem Professional Tennis Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WELL-SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS ↗
  • Who funds VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗

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.

Moses H Cone Memorial…Lincoln Financial Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Joseph M Bryan Fo…Community Foundation …The Cemala Foundation…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Well-Spring Retiremen…The Hummel Family Fun…Foundation for the Ca…Griffin Family Founda…The Stout Family Foun…
Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating CorporationNC30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Griffin Family Foundation · The Stout Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home