· Private foundation
Pfefferkorn 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CATHERINES SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUMMIT SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| HORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE PARENTING PATH | $20,000 |
| UNC KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| IFB SOLUTIONS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TRELLIS SUPPORTIVE CARE | $10,000 |
| FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $6,000 |
| FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY | $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 (FY21–25, $128k) 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.
41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +36%
- ECEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC3× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +10%
- TSThe Summit School Incorporated5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UKUNC KENAN FLAGER BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $8k
- NHNOVANT HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +105%
- SOSIPES ORCHARD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +64%
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.
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
To provide an enriching and challenging curriculum and educational community which encourages students to be life-long learners, develop strong character, serve their community, and deepen their faith.
See schedule owake forest university baptist medical center (at times also referred to as the "medical center or "wfubmc or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (at times also referred to as…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horizons Residential Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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 ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Winston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds IFB Solutions Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Diversity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FLAT ROCK INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds OLD SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NOVANT HEALTH 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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · James T & Louise R Broyhilll Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Shallow Ford Foundation Inc · Foundation for Science Art Life and Technolgy · The Kurtz Family Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital 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 Pfefferkorn 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.
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.