· Public charity
Shallow Ford Foundation Inc
To unlock the full philanthropic potential of our communities of clemmons, lewisville, and yadkin county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $1,205,756 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,374,258 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $723k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEEKENDS WITH WARRIORS INC | $205,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| OPERATION HELO INC | $133,200 |
| LOVE OUT LOUD | $59,645 |
| CANCER SERVICES INC | $47,536 |
| CALVERY BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| HOTWIRE MINISTRIES INC | $24,000 |
| CLEMMONS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $16,800 |
| FORBUSH FRIENDS MEETING INC | $15,895 |
| SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| FORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $12,800 |
| YADKIN ARTS COUNCIL | $12,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC-WILMINGTON | $12,170 |
| HANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC | $12,000 |
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, $729k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 18 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $846k 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
LOVE OUT LOUD8× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +123%- CSCANCER SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $249k · revenue +36%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626)4× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- YCYADKIN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ICIMPRINTS CARESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +55%
- YRYADKIN RIVERKEEPER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +80%
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.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faithhealthinnovations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weekends With Warriors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. 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 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 82 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 LOVE OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELO INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Yadkin Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds YADKIN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds LEWISVILLE CLEMMONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNIFY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SURRY INC ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN REGIONAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES ↗
- Who funds YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SERVICES 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 · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · United Way of Forsyth County Inc · Davie Community Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill 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 Shallow Ford 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.