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· Public charity
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE
A collaborative effort to build a connected, innovative system of care of guilford county's youngest children and their families
$425k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$670kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kEducation$125kReligion$28kFood & Nutrition$28kPhilanthropy$20kEmployment$15kOther$338k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
covid reliefinfant mortality
2022
cqi cohortcohort seesee scheduleschedule partpart descriptionexpansionages pilot
2024
paid outout grg
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 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
- CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC$300,000
- GET READY GUILFORD$125,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–22, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$623k · 6 repeat orgs$761k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
12
Total granted
$623k
$336k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+25%
+41%
Still filing today
83%
83%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterReligionFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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
- YHYWCA HIGH POINT2× · 2020–2022 · $76k · revenue +36%
- GCGUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT2× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +30%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- KFKELLIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue +863%
- GWGUILFORD WORKSone grant, 2022 · $43k
- PAPARENTS AS TEACHERS GUILFORD COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue -2%
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.
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Families First-Nc Inc
To strengthen all families by providing parenting information and education and by preventing adolescent pregnancy.
Human Services
2
Ywca of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc
Eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
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3
Ywca of the Lower Cape Fear Inc
To eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Human Services
4
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
5
Women Giving Back Inc
Women Giving Back (WGB) supports vulnerable families in the Greater Washington DC area by providing quality clothing and other essentials at no cost assisted by a caring and committed community.
Employment
6
Goodwill Industries of Northeast
The organization's mission is to help people overcome barriers to independence.
Employment
7
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
8
Young Women's Christian Association of
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Human Services
9
Duplin County Partnership for Children
The Duplin County Partnership for Children is a catalyst for the development, expansion, and promotion of positive quality opportunities for all children ages 0-12 and their families.
Education
10
Goodwill Industries of
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
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11
Ywca Tulsa Inc
YWCA Tulsa is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.
Human Services
12
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generationed and the most unlike its peers is Positive Direction for Youth and Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$670,418Other$338,381Public Safety & Disaster$160,300Education$125,000Religion$27,500Food & Nutrition$27,500Philanthropy$19,733Employment$15,000
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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GET READY GUILFORD ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds YWCA HIGH POINT ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds KELLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS GUILFORD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE DIRECTION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds TRIAD GOODWILL ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds READING CONNECTIONS ↗
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 of GreaterNC34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Guilford County Partnership for Children Inc · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Foundation for a Healthy High Point · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · David and Claudia Babb Reich
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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GUILFORD COUNTY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~53 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 561804884 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GUILFORD COUNTY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 53 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ready for School Ready for Life?
Find your warmest path to Ready for School Ready for Life through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines