· Private foundation
Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of MEREDITH SLANE FINCH MICHENER FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $461k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST | $140,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INC | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - NC DISCOVERY BALL | $56,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION | $55,300 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE CROSSNORE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE ART GALLERY AT CONGDON YARDS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HIGH POINT | $15,000 |
| LINVILLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JACK THE BIKE MAN | $10,000 |
| MAIN STREET METHODIST CHURCH - FEEDING LISA'S KIDS | $7,500 |
| HIGH POINT DOWNTOWN STADIUM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HIGH POINT MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $55k) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +92%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +47%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $52k · revenue +14%
Funded once
SOPHIA ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +40%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -79%
- DCDUKE CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To promote health and wellness to the general public through the support of services and mission of high point regional health (dba atrium health wake forest baptist high point medical center).
High point academy awakens the joy of learning in each child. the school provides a nurturing environment that enables each student to flourish academically, emotionally, morally, physically, and socially. the challenging curriculum…
The clinic's mission is to provide quality acute care and chronic disease management for eligible adults, aged 18-64, who reside in archdale, high point, jamestown and trinity and do not qualify for any form of government or private…
The goodwill industries of the southern piedmont foundation's purpose is to support efforts to advance the mission, strategic goals and financial sustainability of goodwill industries of the southern piedmont, inc.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
The foundation will conduct charitable activities designed to improve the quality of life in the community by increasing charitable giving and community participation.
(1) to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding in economics, finance, education & training, science, and technology throughout the community of high point, north carolina and its region with regard to…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
The community development corporation will create equitable and accessible whole-person solutions for every resident of north carolina through community collaboration and investment made possible by the community development corporation.
Business high point, inc. is dedicated to encouraging economic growth in the piedmont triad region of north carolina. the chamber is an advocate for our members and our community on business-related issues and participates in initiatives…
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jack the Bike Man Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT DOWNTOWN STADIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF HIGH POINT 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: Foster Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organization Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc 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.
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
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.