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Prim Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINSTON SALEM FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS FUTURES FUND | $100,000 |
| LOVE OUT LOUD | $93,500 |
| APSEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC | $55,000 |
| LIFE OF VICTORY IN CHRIST MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $11,000 |
| BUDDIES FOR BIRDIES (OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION AND MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER) | $10,000 |
| SCOREBOARD LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS TRAINING PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| MIRACLES IN SIGHT | $5,000 |
| OAK GROVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| ABC OF NC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HANDS OF HOPE | $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 (FY18–25, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- AEApseed Early Childhood Education Inc4× · 2019–2025 · $291k · revenue ×12
LOVE OUT LOUD7× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +123%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $62k · revenue +45%
Funded once
CITY LIGHTS MINISTRYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%- GWGREATER WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- WSWINSTON STARTSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
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 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…
The organization is a public-private partnership to accelerate and scale commercialized innovation from nc's universities, create jobs, and improve economic opportunities in all 100 counties of north carolina.
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…
The corporation's primary purpose include: (1) making scholarship grants to qualified residents of north carolina; (2) making funds available to any person or entity in order to educate the public regarding financial literacy, banking and…
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…
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
See schedule o for continuationwake forest university health sciences (at times also referred to as "wake forest university school of medicine", "wfuhs or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agile City Winston-Salem and the most unlike its peers is Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY LIGHTS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WINSTON STARTS ↗
- Who funds ABC OF NC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM ↗
- Who funds R J REYNOLDS HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN SIGHT ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT RENEWAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Oak Grove Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER ↗
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 · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Flow Foundation Inc · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Prim Family 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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