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Ready for School Ready for Life

The mission of ready for school, ready for life is to create, design, and implement a collaborative system of care for guilford county's youngest children and their families, fostering not only their academic development but also their socio-emotional growth.

$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$6.4MHealth$1.7MEducation$598kEmployment$85kReligion$78kHousing & Shelter$68kFood & Nutrition$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC$300,000
GET READY GUILFORD$125,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 12%ZERO TO THREE: $181k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $37k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $128k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $29k → 16%YWCA HIGH POINT: $43k → 16%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC: $30k → 16%YMCA HIGH POINT: $25k → 16%YWCA HIGH POINT: $9k → 16%YWCA HIGH POINT: $3k → 16%YMCA OF GREENSBORO: $25k → 16%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $95k → 16%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $36k → 16%THE BARNABAS NETWORK: $28k → 16%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $28k → 16%KELLIN FOUNDATION: $28k → 16%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 16%THE BARNABAS NETWORK: $25k → 16%ROOM AT THE INN: $15k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $28k → 16%ROOM AT THE INN: $13k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $25k → 16%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $1.5M → 16%GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $41k → 16%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $28k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 19 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$7.1M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+15%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +11%
  • G
    GENERATIONED
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +12%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $193k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • GC
    GUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $1.5M
  • ZT
    ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES
    one grant, 2023 · $181k · revenue -20%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Guilford County Partnership for Children Inc

The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…

Education
2
Families First-Nc Inc

To strengthen all families by providing parenting information and education and by preventing adolescent pregnancy.

Human Services
3
Ywca of the Lower Cape Fear Inc

Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
4
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…

Education
5
Greene Lamp

To provide services to low income families and individuals in the greene, lenoir, pitt, craven, duplin, edgecombe, martin, sampson, wayne, wilson and beaufort county areas that shall enhance their ability to become more self sufficient.

Community Improvement
6
Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

Education
7
Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Green Bay Inc

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
8
Greenlight Family Services

Greenlight's mission is to achieve the best outcomes for families, young adults, and children by providing the highest quality services. its primary focus is to provide adoption and guardianship for children in the welfare system.

Human Services
9
Green Byrne Child Care Center

The green byrne child care center services approximately 85 children ranging from 6 weeks to 6 years of age. teaching strategies for infants, toddlers and preschoolers align with the pennsylvania early learning standards and focus on…

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10
Guilford Center for Children Inc

Guilford Center for Children, Inc. provides two major programs: an NAEYC accredited early education program for children ages 3 to 5 and a before and after school for children ages 5 through 12 years old for working families in Guilford.

Human Services
11
The Partnership for Children of Wayne County Inc

To provide or connect families with early care and education, health, and family support services needed for young children.

Education
12
Orange County Partnership for Young Children

To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generationed and the most unlike its peers is D-Up 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr20%5%35–55yr11%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr20%5%35–55yr11%60%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
17%
532/3,077

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $3,957,420 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina IncGENERATIONED — $1,519,412 · Human ServicesGENERATIONED+10 more — $851,838 · Human Services+10 moreGUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES — $1,467,495 · OtherGUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO — $262,763 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CA…YWCA Greensboro — $107,700 · OtherREADING CONNECTIONS INC — $102,248 · OtherCITY OF GREENSBORO — $80,000 · Other+3 more — $81,340 · OtherGET READY GUILFORD — $161,017 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $160,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $75,000 · EducationEVERY BABY GUILFORD INC — $160,300 · Public Safety & DisasterPositive Direction for Youth and Families Inc — $52,500 · ReligionFaithAction International House — $25,000 · ReligionOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $52,500 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $41,515 · Philanthropy
Human Services$6,328,670Other$2,101,546Education$396,017Public Safety & Disaster$160,300Religion$77,500Food & Nutrition$52,500Philanthropy$41,515

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $3,957,420 over 2y, 12% of budgetGENERATIONED — $1,519,412 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $192,985 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $181,437 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGET READY GUILFORD — $161,017 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEVERY BABY GUILFORD INC — $160,300 over 2y, 19% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELLIN FOUNDATION — $158,291 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetYWCA Greensboro — $107,700 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetREADING CONNECTIONS INC — $102,248 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC — $84,125 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $52,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS — $52,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc — $52,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPositive Direction for Youth and Families Inc — $52,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTHE BARNABAS NETWORK — $52,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $41,515 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS GUILFORD COUNTY — $28,840 over 1y, 14% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL NORTH CAR — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM AT THE INN INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFaithAction International House — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetD-UP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Lincoln Financial Fou…David and Claudia Bab…United Way of Greater…Moses Cone - Wesley L…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Get Ready GuilfordThe Mary Lynn Richard…High Point Community …Weaver Foundation IncThe Cemala Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Get Ready Guilford · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · High Point Community Foundation · Weaver Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Ready for School Ready for Life 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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